Drinking: A Love Story
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385315546 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Fittingly, it was literature that saved her: She found inspiration in Pete Hamill's A Drinking Life and sobered up. 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. . Her tale is spiced with the characters she's known along the way
Heartbreakingly honest Holly Golightly A very powerful, personal love story of what it's like to be married to alcohol and then decide to divorce (to use the author's metaphor). It's beautifully written, was hard to put down, and has given me insight into what it's like to think alcoholically, which gives me a chance to practice more compassion and to offer more love to those who struggle with addiction. I feel v. Pretty much the definitive book on alcoholism Natalie Downing Beautifully written, but so tragic. She finally gets clean from alcohol, but continues to smoke and dies of lung cancer. Regardless, this is so on point, neither shocking for the sake of shocking, nor candy coating, this book walks the line of the functional alcoholic- it's a lot of people's story and it's her story, She does conquer and that also showed the very real side o. Makes you think, gives you hope Amazon Customer This wasn't an easy read for me, in the sense that I related so much to what Caroline was saying. Some days I would even read with a glass of wine, then 2 or 3, so difficult it was to accept that I, too might have a drinking problem. It truly is a journey you have to make one day at a time, one step at a time.
Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.. Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism