The Chemical Girl - Hardcover

Chip Silverman has also written Diner Guys, The Block, Aloha Magnum, The Last Bookmaker, Ten Bears, and Lucky Every Day. Ten Bears has been optioned as a major motion picture for Warner Brothers.

"An engaging love story set against the hedonism of 80's America, The Chemical Girl also offers an illuminating insight into the world of drug rehabilitation and its memorably eccentric inhabitants." -- Eddi Fiegel, author of Dream a Little Dream of Me: The Life of Mama Cass Elliott, and John Barry: A Sixties Theme

"Having been among the newspaper reporters who covered Len Bias' death, I can state that Chip Silverman has flawlessly recreated an unforgettable time in Maryland. So much for the notion that a book about addiction can't be funny as well as harrowing. The Chemical Girl entertains and enlightens." -- John Eisenberg, Baltimore Sun columnist and author of The Great Match Race

"Set in the eighties, The Chemical Girl, a story of addiction, dysfunction, sex and midlife crisis swings through Ocean City and other Maryland hotspots as fast and hard as a disco backbeat. Like his other novels, this one is peopled with Silverman's trademark Maryland characters, so real you'll swear you met them at the bar last night. I learned a lot and had a great time doing it." -- Margaret Meacham, author of A Mid-Semester Night's Dream, Oyster Moon, and Secret of Heron Creek

"This is Silverman at his best, weaving a unique story of addiction and dysfunction around a seminal moment in American sports history. All of this with a wicked, sly sense of humor!" -- Barry Levinson, Oscar-winning director, producer and screenwriter of such hits as Rain Man, Good Morning, Viet Nam, Bugsy, The Natural, Diner, and many others.

"What Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was to the field of mental health, Chip Silverman's The Chemical Girl is to the field of addictions. Wickedly entertaining and disturbingly informative." -- Thomas F. Monteleone, best-selling author of Blood of the Lamb, The Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel, and over twenty other books