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PublisherLittle Brown & Company

ISBN-100316341088

ISBN-139780316341080

eBay Product ID (ePID)1268984

Product Key Features

Book TitleDrinking Life : a Memoir

Number of Pages280 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEditors, Journalists, Publishers, Personal Memoirs, Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, Literary, Customs & Traditions

Publication Year1994

GenreSocial Science, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorPete Hamill

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height9.5 in

Item Weight20.7 Oz

Item Length1 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN93-028629

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal818/.5409 B

SynopsisThis 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, 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

LC Classification NumberPS3558.A423Z463 1994