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Down the Drain
- Narrated by: Julia Fox
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
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.
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.
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
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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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- 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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- Jlen
- 21-11-23
Incredible!
One of the best I've listened to! Her whole life story so far was fascinating and heartbreaking.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-12-23
Visceral and stunningly addictive
Writing this review after my fourth time listening to this book, it’s truly a masterpiece
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- Anonymous User
- 26-12-23
Raw and honest
Brilliantly written, Julia will take you on her crazy life journey , it’s actually crazy what she’s been through. Her strength is truly inspiring.. not for people with weak stomach’s!
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- Anonymous User
- 25-10-23
One of the best books I’ve read in a long time
A non cliched account of how addiction friendship and love can be so convoluted. Heartbreaking, vivid and honest. Found myself sobbing in public a few times.
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- Tri dinh le
- 07-02-24
A relatable dreamer and lover
Truly refreshing tale of a young girl to mother that’s honest about the hardships a person must go through to truly blossom. It made me smile, gasp, cry and think about the beauty’s we meet in our life.
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- abeh
- 18-01-24
It was, in fact, a masterpiece
Loved this book, the best one I’ve listened to in ages. Real and raw and Julia’s voice is heaven.
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