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Note Found in a Bottle: A Memoir by Susan Cheever (2000, Trade Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed By
- NA
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Book Series
- Historical
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults, Young Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- Yes
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Unit Type
- Unit
- Literary Movement
- Expressionism, Realism, Modernism
- Era
- 2000s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Unabridged
- Unit Quantity
- 1
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780671040734
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Washington Square Press
ISBN-10
0671040731
ISBN-13
9780671040734
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1027014
Product Key Features
Book Title
Note Found in a Bottle
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Literary
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
8.1 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Judy Collins Susan Cheever's new memoir, Note Found in a Bottle, is the brilliantly written and deeply moving story of a woman's spiritual journey. Her captivating prose illuminates, in riveting detail, the pain and joy of a life in transformation. With humor, insight, and inspiration, she tells of a pilgrimage through darkness to light, vividly describing the mysterious alchemy of her drinking and where it took her and [gives us] a powerful story of chaos transformed into serenity, pain transformed by love. This is an important book and I was deeply moved by it., Jacki Lydenauthor of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba From this beautifully written book, it is clear that the dull haze of alcohol never obscured Cheever's writerly instincts....A writer of shining clarity., Jacki Lyden author of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba From this beautifully written book, it is clear that the dull haze of alcohol never obscured Cheever's writerly instincts....A writer of shining clarity., Erica JongOut of razor blades and rosebuds, Susan Cheever has fashioned a stunning story of spiritual rebirth. It breaks your heart while it makes you laugh out loud. I plan to read it again and again., Maggie Scarf Note Found in a Bottle ushers the reader into a world of old wealth, immense talent, wild wit, sexual betrayal, celebrity, drugs, and alcohol, alcohol, alcohol. If F. Scott Fitzgetald were writing in the '90s, this might be what it would sound like. Susan Cheever's new memoir is completely mesmerizing., Carolyn SeeBazaarThe realm she evokes here may look at first like paradise, but by the time you finish these beautifully imagined pages, you'll be convinced it was hell....It's Cheever's strength that she can writethroughthis form, making us see the shimmering, layered reality behind any moralizing., San Diego Union-Tribune Cheever's compelling, candid, and ultimately inspiring story is a testimony both ot her personal triumph and her undeniable gift as a writer., NewsdayIt's a testament to Cheever's skill as a memoirist that her slow dawning becomes ours. Like her, we expect some cataclysmic event, some aha! moment....Instead, she and we get a slow accumulation of behaviors that, in sober hindsight, add up to an alcoholic life....A major accomplishment., San Diego Union-TribuneCheever's compelling, candid, and ultimately inspiring story is a testimony both ot her personal triumph and her undeniable gift as a writer., Newsday It's a testament to Cheever's skill as a memoirist that her slow dawning becomes ours. Like her, we expect some cataclysmic event, some aha! moment....Instead, she and we get a slow accumulation of behaviors that, in sober hindsight, add up to an alcoholic life....A major accomplishment., Kirkus Reviews A memoir that floats like a sad song, with its themes the effervescence of champagne and the flatness of the morning after....A poignant and fortright tale of a rugged journey by amd extraordinarily gifted writer., Kirkus ReviewsA memoir that floats like a sad song, with its themes the effervescence of champagne and the flatness of the morning after....A poignant and fortright tale of a rugged journey by amd extraordinarily gifted writer., Book Anyone in recovery runs the risk of sounding self-pitying, self-righteous, or both. The middle ground is hard to achieve with material so personal....Susan Cheever, absent pathos or bathos, has now walked that fine line., Erica Jong Out of razor blades and rosebuds, Susan Cheever has fashioned a stunning story of spiritual rebirth. It breaks your heart while it makes you laugh out loud. I plan to read it again and again., Carolyn See Bazaar The realm she evokes here may look at first like paradise, but by the time you finish these beautifully imagined pages, you'll be convinced it was hell....It's Cheever's strength that she can write through this form, making us see the shimmering, layered reality behind any moralizing., Jacki Lydenauthor ofDaughter of the Queen of ShebaFrom this beautifully written book, it is clear that the dull haze of alcohol never obscured Cheever's writerly instincts....A writer of shining clarity., Jacki Lydenauthor of Daughter of the Queen of ShebaFrom this beautifully written book, it is clear that the dull haze of alcohol never obscured Cheever's writerly instincts....A writer of shining clarity., BookAnyone in recovery runs the risk of sounding self-pitying, self-righteous, or both. The middle ground is hard to achieve with material so personal....Susan Cheever, absent pathos or bathos, has now walked that fine line.
Table Of Content
Contents 1. Drinking with Daddy 2. Thunderbird off the Coast of Maine 3. The Weight of Air 4. First Love 5. We Are Always True to Brown 6. Graduation 7. Rocky Mountain Buzz 8. Drinking and the Romantic Imagination 9. Alabama 1965; Mississippi 1966 10. Fear 11. Note Found in a Bottle 12. Bow Wow 13. Beechwood 14. Parties in New York City 15. Living with the Dead 16. Fighting 17. Expatriates 18. Journalism 19. San Francisco 20. Warren After Dark 21. Opposites 22. Tais-Toi 23. Champagne 24. "I really want a drink." 25. Sarah 26. I Stop; I Start 27. The Sand at the Heart of the Pearl 28. Quad 29. The Mitchell Brothers 30. Stopping Again, Again 31. Healing 32. The Places I Went Acknowledgments
Synopsis
Born into a world ruled and defined by the cocktail hour, in which the solution to any problem could be found in a dry martini or another glass of wine, Susan Cheever led a life both charmed and damned. She and her father, the celebrated writer John Cheever, were deeply affected and troubled by alcohol. Addressing for the first time the profound effects that alcohol had on her life, in shaping of her relationships with men and in influencing her as a writer, Susan Cheever delivers an elegant memoir of clear-eyed candor and unsettling immediacy. She tells of her childhood obsession with the niceties of cocktails and all that they implied -- sociability, sophistication, status; of college days spent drinking beer and cheap wine; of her three failed marriages, in which alcohol was the inescapable component, of a way of life that brought her perilously close to the edge. At once devastating and inspiring, Note Found in a Bottle offers a startlingly intimate portrait of the alcoholic's life -- and of the corageous journey to recovery., Born into a world ruled and defined by the cocktail hour, in which the solution to any problem could be found in a dry martini or another glass of wine, Susan Cheever led a life both charmed and damned. She and her father, the celebrated writer John Cheever, were deeply affected and troubled by alcohol.Addressing for the first time the profound effects that alcohol had on her life, in shaping of her relationships with men and in influencing her as a writer, Susan Cheever delivers an elegant memoir of clear-eyed candor and unsettling immediacy. She tells of her childhood obsession with the niceties of cocktails and all that they implied -- sociability, sophistication, status; of college days spent drinking beer and cheap wine; of her three failed marriages, in which alcohol was the inescapable component, of a way of life that brought her perilously close to the edge.At once devastating and inspiring,Note Found in a Bottleoffers a startlingly intimate portrait of the alcoholic's life -- and of the corageous journey to recovery.
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