Diary of an Oxygen thief: The Bum:

After the end of sobriety, after the money, after the myth of redemption, the narrator of Diary of an Oxygen Thief: The Bum finds himself stranded in the wreckage of his own voice.

Set largely over a single, spiraling encounter in Dublin, this book is less a sequel than a rupture, a relapse not just into alcohol and drugs, but into obsession, grandiosity, self-loathing, and the compulsive need to explain oneself to no one in particular. What begins as a night at a bar with a red-haired barte...