num_pages: 286
description: 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.
language: English
title: Drinking: A Love Story
titlecomplete: Drinking: A Love Story
genres: Self Help, Biography, Alcohol, Mental Illness, Psychology, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Mental Health, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 19574
publisher: Dial Press