KNAPP, CAROLINE (1959 - 2002)
KNAPP, CAROLINE (1959 - 2002)
Drinking. A love story. 1996 [sold-verkocht]
KNAPP, CAROLINE (1959 - 2002)
Drinking. A love story.
Quartet Books, London. 1996. First edition. Paperback (softcover). 256 pp. 13½ x 21 x 1½ cm. 328 gr. Author photo Mark Morelli. Cover photograph Marianne Hansen. Design Namara. ISBN-10 0-7043-803-1. ISBN-13 978-0-7043-8033-2. 'It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.' So begins Caroline's Knapp's searing, acutely honest account of her twenty year love affair with alcohol, the 'liquid armour' she used to protect herself. Caroline was every young woman's idea of success; her won apartment, a steady boyfriend and an award-winning career in newspaper journalism. Few would have suspected that beneath her polished professional veneer, was a person so insecure that she needed to drink herself into oblivion every night. Yet Caroline was a discerning drinker and she describes with great passion the pleasures of a silky Merlot or a tart Cabernete Sauvignon, and the ease with which she moved from sipping Fumé blanc The Ritz, to necking double shots of Johnnie Walker at a dingy bar near her office. Caroline Knapp's ruthless self-examination, moral courage and singular ability as a writer bring many new insights about alcoholism to this remarkable memoir. A journalist describes her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic, explaining how she used alcohol to escape the realities of life and personal relationships, until a series of personal crises forced her to confront her problem. Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as 'liquid armor', a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it. Near fine copy. As new.
Booknumber: 19766
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