Book excerpt: "In this 90-piece orchestration of autobiographical flashbacks, the author describes his descent into alcoholism while three fictional alter egos (unnoticed by him) discuss his prospects for recovery. This intense, introspective and illuminating fiction looks at alcoholism and addiction from the inside out and back again. In three parts, the destruction, the deconstruction and the reconstruction, the alcoholic beast is revealed"--Page 4 of cover.