John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780192837172 (0192837176)
Publish date: November 19th 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Literature,
Food And Drink,
American,
20th Century,
Biography Memoir,
Alcohol
This isn't an autobiography in the conventional sense. It's clearly and openly a Prohibitionist tract, published seven years before Prohibition came to pass. It just so happens that London chose his own drinking career to illustrate his argument. Hence, those looking for the story of Jack's life may...
I couldn't exactly relate to London's alcoholism, being something of an inadvertent teetotaler myself, and his views on prohibition (before it had a capital "P") were naive at best and stupid at worst, but still I found myself drawn in to this one. Perhaps because most of the time it reads like a go...
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