Dancing on Glass is the brutally honest and often painful account of Newhart's life long struggle with isolation obesity and sexual perversion. He managed to achieve academic success-while falling inexorably into alcoholism drug addiction and increasingly difficult bouts with mania and depression. But this is also a story of recovery and hope!With the help of therapists rehabs 12 step programs and supportive friends and loversNewhart eventually learned to love himself--he broke the strangleholds of addictions overeating and mental illness and has been living an imperfect but stable and fulfilling life for the last two decades.