Drinking: A Love Story
Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. 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...
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Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385315548 (0385315546)
ASIN: 385315546
Publish date: May 12th 1997
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Pages no: 286
Edition language: English
Over the last month, I've gleaned a lot of odd looks from friends and coworkers when I tell them I've given up alcohol for Lent. Part of this is because they know me to be without religion. I blame my decision on Alain de Botton and his TED lecture "Atheism 2.0", in which he talks about the good p...
Very powerful memoir by a high-functioning alcoholic in which she relates her drinking history and her first couple years of sobriety. Knapp was an excellent writer, and a brave woman.
This is very well written and the story itself is engaging. It reads a little bit like gossip because it is so engaging - you want to know what will happen, it has its tawdry bits, its family drama. It's really a strong person who can pull herself out of this downward spiral, and at least in part it...
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