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Drinking: A Love Story

of Caroline Knapp

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The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored in this stylistic, literary memoir of drinking by a Massachusetts journalist. Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her well-to-do parents pushed her toward anorexia and alcoholism. Fittingly, it was literature that saved her: she found inspiration in Pete Hamill's 'A Drinking Life' and sobered up. Her tale is spiced up with the characters she has known along the way. A journalist describes her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic, explaining how she used alcohol to escape personal relationships and the realities of life until a series of personal crises forced her to confront her problem.

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Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 286 pages
  • Publisher Dial Press
  • Publication Date May 12th 1997
  • First Publication 05/02/96
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780385315548
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Other
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