The Drinker
“ This is an heroic book, brave, fearless and honest. It is necessary reading.”—The Sunday Times (London)“ Genuinely tragic and beautiful...[Fallada’s] perfectly horrifying, horrifyingly perfect novel is the story of himself rejected by society and returning the insult.”—New Statesmen"In a publishing hat trick, Melville House allows English-language readers to sample Fallada's vertiginous variety accompanying the release of Michael Hoffman's splendid translation ofEvery Man Dies Alonewith the simultaneous publication of excellent English versions of Fallada's two best-known novels,Little Man, What Now?(translated by Susan Bennett) andThe Drinker(translated by Charlotte and A.L. Lloyd).The Drinker, which Fallada wrote in 1944 while he was locked up in a criminal asylum for attacking his estranged wife, is a memoirish novel in which a country merchant describes his unrepentant, gloating slide into alcoholism and failure."-- New York Times Book Review