Full name: Drinking: A Love Story

Author: Caroline Knapp Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780385315548 0385315546

The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored in this stylistic, literary memoir of drinking by a Massachusetts journalist. Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her well-to-do parents pushed her toward anorexia and alcoholism. Fittingly, it was literature that saved her: she found inspiration in Pete Hamill's A Drinking Life and sobered up. Her tale is spiced up with the characters she has known along the way. A journalist describes her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic, explaining how she used alcohol to escape personal relationships and the realities of life until a series of personal crises forced her to confront her problem. Similar books: Blackout by Sarah Hepola lit by Mary Karr Smashed by Koren Zailckas Parched by Heather King Lies My Mother Never Told Me by Kaylie Jones With or Without You by Domenica Ruta The Recovering by Leslie Jamison A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill All That You Leave Behind by Erin Lee Carr The Night of the Gun by David Carr Fiction Ruined My Family by Jeanne Darst Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden Dry by Augusten Burroughs My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown Appetites by Caroline Knapp Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet