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Julia Fox
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Julia Fox
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The hotly anticipated book from ‘one of the all-time pop-culture greats’ (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams.
'A gripping and powerful coming-of-age story' TELEGRAPH
‘A masterpiece’ GREG JAMES, BBC RADIO 1
Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media. But all these share the trait for which she is most famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself.
This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in Down the Drain. Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parents’ volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs “The Artist”; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son.
Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn’t just capture her evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience—it’s all here, in raw, remarkable and riveting detail.
More than a year before the book's publication, Fox's description of it as "a masterpiece" in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. Down the Drain is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.
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Critic reviews
‘Most startling of memoirs. Within two chapters I, too, was hooked … Fans of Edie Sedgwick, Cookie Mueller and Courtney Love will die for Down The Drain … I think I just accidentally landed on my book of the year’ Paul Flyn, Evening Standard
‘A gripping and powerful coming-of-age story that exposes the terrible repercussions of childhood neglect, society’s routine exploitation of the female body and the hollowness of celebrity’ Telegraph
‘Intense and compelling’ Sunday Times
‘A masterpiece’ Greg James, Radio 1
‘Fox’s willingness to be honest about what has happened to her and the shame she sometimes feels provides a sharp alternative to most survivor narratives that are publicized. She’s an artist who translates her relationships, her overdoses, and other near-death experiences into the art she makes’ Elizabeth Nicholas, The Cut
'Julia Fox is a genius' The Face
'The story of a woman fighting to reclaim her narrative' Cosmopolitan
'Julia Fox is an iconoclast' New Yorker
'Down The Drain is a page-turner' Gay Times
'She is a woman who has lived a thousand lives' Dazed
'When Fox said that her book was a masterpiece she was stating facts' HUNGER
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- Emily
- 31-03-24
Amazing storyteller and incredibly raw
I didn’t know much about Julia apart from the online memes, so when I saw this I was sceptical.
I have an amazing respect for Julia, what an incredible woman!
I think she is fantastic and the way she tells her story is emotive and fascinating. I’ve been gripped the entire time and couldn’t recommend this enough!
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- Anonymous User
- 26-10-23
Incredible and Inspiring
Julia’s life story is wild and very sad at times. She has taken so many experiences that would break a person and turned them into something positive. Love her wit and realness, anyone suggesting she is famous for nothing is a boring misogynist. Go Julia
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- Anonymous User
- 29-12-23
Wow! What a life!
What an incredible woman, I loved every word in this book! She’s just amazing herself, I feel very inspired to be unashamed to be myself too.
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- r
- 03-02-24
Great read
Don’t usually read autobiographies, but was compelled to buy it after seeing an interview.
Shes had such a crazy life and its amazing hear how she went thru it, just a reli interesting listen
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- Anonymous User
- 06-05-24
I’m ready to listen again already!
The adventure of new life over and over again she takes you on is mesmerising. Truly a special book. Julia Fox is a force of joy love realness and genius. The way she reads her words and leaves you wanting more. Cannot wait for the book she will write in 50 years giving us more!
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-06-24
Loved this
The least interesting thing about Julia is that she dated Kanye West, her story is incredible and it’s only made better by her narrating it!
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- Maresa Hanahoe
- 18-07-24
Worth a listen!
Julia's life story is wild and so interesting! I think I like her more after listening to this.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-09-24
Wild ride
This whole audiobook feels like an incredibly riveting story you'd hear off your head at 3am in a club smoking area
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- Anonymous User
- 13-07-24
A masterpiece.
I was hooked at every chapter. Best read in a long time! I will be recommending this book to everyone!!
I now have an obsession with Julia Fox she is an ICON
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- Anonymous User
- 30-07-24
Did not expect to love this so much
Once I got past the vocal fry I quickly became obsessed with this book. A wild and exciting story from start to finish. I’m gonna need her to write a sequel immediately if not sooner
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