About The Event: Author Richard Farrell will discuss his memoir - What's Left Of Us - which has just been optioned into a movie starring Channing Tatum. Richard will also take questions from the audience and sign copies of his book. The Andover Bookstore will be present to sell copies of Richard's book to all interested fans.
About The Speaker: Richard Farrell is an author, filmmaker, teacher, and journalist. Richard was a screenwriter for "The Fighter" and played himself in the film. Richard's documentary - "High On Crack Street" - aired on HBO and received Columbia University's duPont Award. Richard was previously a professor at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Richard grew up in the working-class Irish neighborhood of Lowell, Massachusetts. To overcome a birth defect, his father pushed him to become a star athlete, grooming him for Notre Dame. Sometimes, he would use a belt as a learning tool. Once, he used an electric carving knife. By the time he was thirty, Richard was a heroin addict, stealing from friends, shooting up during visits to his children, living in abandoned mill buildings, running for the shameful secrets of his family. Hopeless and in pain, he attempted suicide. When that failed, he was ordered to detox. Richard's life embodies a true story of redemption: of how low a man can get, and how hard he must fight to escape a shattered life.
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