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Drinking: A Love Story

Caroline Knapp

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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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Dial Press
  • Publish Date: May 12nd, 1997
  • Pages: 304
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.06in - 5.36in - 0.72in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9780385315548
  • Categories: • Substance Abuse & Addictions - Alcohol• Women• Memoirs

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About the Author

Caroline Knapp was a contributor at New Woman magazine and a regular columnist at The Boston Phoenix, and her work has appeared in Mademoiselle, The New York Times, and numerous international magazines. She is also the author of Alice K's Guide to Life and Pack of Two. Caroline Knapp died in 2002 at the age of 42.

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I'm so happy !!!

Drinking: A love story by Caroline Knapp changed my life

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Elle
2 years

"I read this in my 20s when I first quit drinking. She wrote other books I love, but this one made the strongest impression on me. It may have been the first memoir I’d ever read."

– Ottessa Moshfegh is a novelist.
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@brooke_warner So many. Here are a few: Notes from a Silencing @lacy_crawford ;Drinking, a Love Story by Caroline Knapp; Firebird by Mark Doty; Mean by Myriam Gurba @lesbrains; A Ghost in the Throat by Doireannn ni Ghriofa

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Praise for this book

"Quietly moving . . . Caroline Knapp dazzles us with her heady description of alcohol's allure and its devastating hold."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Filled with hard-won wisdom . . . [a] perceptive and revealing book."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Eloquent . . . a remarkable exercise in self-discovery."--The New York Times

"Drinking not only describes triumph; it is one."--Newsweek

What people are saying

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〝𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧〞
@dreamcatalogs
1 year

I'm so happy !!!

Drinking: A love story by Caroline Knapp changed my life

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Elle
2 years

"I read this in my 20s when I first quit drinking. She wrote other books I love, but this one made the strongest impression on me. It may have been the first memoir I’d ever read."

– Ottessa Moshfegh is a novelist.
elle.com
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