Drinking: A Love Story Review
The "gift of desperation" is what this author calls what gave her the strength and motivation to quit drinking. A while ago, out of curiosity, I checked out this book from the library and never forgot it. I recently decided to add a copy of the book to my own library and I am so glad I did! It's all that I remember it being and more! It is truly an easy read and very well written. What I love about this book is that it gives me an insight into the world of someone who drinks. It helps to put a human face on the addiction of alcohol instead of a judgment call or simply seeing the addiction as a weakness in another person. I so much appreciate the author's truthfulness. I would highly recommend this book for those under the influence of alcohol-who want to break free, their families, friends and even just the curious. I've given this book as a gift and would do so again. Please consider this book if alcohol, in any way, affects your life- it's worth its weight in gold!
Drinking: A Love Story Overview
A journalist describes her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic, explaining how she used alcohol to escape the realities of life and personal relationships, until a series of personal crises forced her to confront her problem. Reprint. 90,000 first printing."
Drinking: A Love Story Specifications
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 anexoria and then 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 with the characters she's known along the way.
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