Smashed
Subtitle: story of a drunken girlhood
By: Koren Zailckas.
Publisher: RB Large Print
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Prince Frederick, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
Subjects: Zailckas, Koren.; Women alcoholics -- United States -- Biography.; Women -- Alcohol use -- United States.; Girls -- Alcohol use -- United States.; Large type books.
Genres: Biography.
Description: From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual." With the stylistic freshness of a poet and the dramatic gifts of a novelist, Zailckas describes her first sip at fourteen, alcohol poisoning at sixteen, a blacked-out sexual experience at nineteen, total disorientation after waking up in an unfamiliar New York City apartment at twenty-two, when she realized she had to stop, and all the depression, rage, troubled friendships, and sputtering romantic connections in between.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Viking, 2005.

"LP288"--Spine.