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Drinking : a love story / Caroline Knapp.
LIBRA Special HV5293.K53 A3 1996
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Van Pelt Library HV5293.K53 A3 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knapp, Caroline, 1959-2002.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knapp, Caroline, 1959-2002.
- Knapp, Caroline.
- Alcoholics--United States--Biography.
- Alcoholics.
- Alcoholism.
- United States.
- Recovering alcoholics--United States--Biography.
- Recovering alcoholics.
- Alcoholism--United States--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- "It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out". So begins Drinking: A Love Story, journalist Caroline Knapp's brave and powerful memoir of her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic. Knapp writes that she loved liquor the way she loved bad men and, like all tragic love stories, hers is a tale of seduction and betrayal, a testament to the alluring but ultimately destructive powers of addiction. Fifteen million Americans a year are afflicted with the disease of alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Caroline Knapp, for example, started drinking at age fourteen. She drank through her years at an Ivy League college, through an award-winning career as a lifestyle editor and columnist. Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, attentive friend, sophisticated professional. Privately she was drinking herself into oblivion, trapped in love relationships that continued to undermine her self-esteem - until a series of personal crises forced her to confront and ultimately break free of the "liquid armor" she'd used to shield herself from the complicated battles of growing up. Caroline Knapp's ruthless self-examination, moral courage, and singular ability as a writer inform this remarkable memoir with many new insights about alcoholism, but more important, with many profound insights about life.
- Contents:
- 1 Love 1
- 2 Double Life I 11
- 3 Destiny 28
- 4 Hunger 56
- 5 In Vodka Veritas 63
- 6 Sex 77
- 7 Drinking Alone 102
- 8 Addiction 121
- 9 Substitution 133
- 10 Denial 149
- 11 Giving Over 167
- 12 A Glimpse 188
- 13 Double Life II 192
- 14 Hitting Bottom 212
- 15 Help 242
- 16 Healing 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0385315511
- 0385315546
- OCLC:
- 33131793
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