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A Drinking Life
A Drinking Life

A Drinking Life

by Little, Brown and Company
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Description
This bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is "a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction" (New York Times).

As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseparable from the rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romance, and religion. Only later did he discover its ability to destroy any writer's most valuable tools: clarity, consciousness, memory.

In A Drinking Life, Hamill explains how alcohol slowly became a part of his life, and how he ultimately left it behind. Along the way, he summons the mood of an America that is gone forever, with the bittersweet fondness of a lifelong New Yorker.

"Magnificent. A Drinking Life is about growing up and growing old, working and trying to work, within the culture of drink." --Boston Globe
AUTHORS:

Pete Hamill

PUBLISHER:

Little, Brown and Company

ISBN-10:

0316341088

ISBN-13:

9780316341080

BINDING:

Hardback

BISAC:

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

PUBLICATION YEAR:

1994

NUMBER OF PAGES:

280

AUDIENCE TYPE:

General / Adult

LANGUAGE:

English

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