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A Drinking Life

A Drinking Life: A Memoir

Hardback Published on: 19/01/1994
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Synopsis

**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***

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
  • ISBN: 9780316341080
  • Number of pages: 265
  • Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 24 mm
  • Weight: 295g
  • Languages: English