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Orangutan : memoir / Colin Broderick.
Van Pelt Library HV5293.B76 A3 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Broderick, Colin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Broderick, Colin.
- Alcoholism--Biography.
- Alcoholism.
- Irish Americans--Biography.
- Irish Americans.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 340 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Three Rivers Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- In this whiskey-drenched memoir, Broderick details his yearslong battle with the bottle. As a young Irish immigrant in New York City in 1988, Broderick spent his days working in the building trades and his nights carousing in Bronx Irish bars where he morphed into the orangutan of the title. A taste for cocaine and ever-greater excess destroyed his first marriage and sent him to AA; the collapse of his second marriage after a period of sobriety started him drinking again. Broderick's hard-drinking life takes readers from New York to San Francisco and Russia. Along the way, he discovered that his yearnings to be a writer would only be realized if he could dry out for good.
- ISBN:
- 0307453405
- 9780307453402
- OCLC:
- 422759295
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