Drinking, a Love Story

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Caroline Knapp

Addiction & Recovery

Delta Publishing

Drinking: A Love Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Random House~trade

<p>Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing Group Inc., New York, 1997: set of four audio cassettes.</p>

Bantam Audio

A powerful, brave, and moving memoir of one  woman's struggle with alcoholism, a disease that  affects fifteen million Americans each  year."It happened this way: I fell in love  and then, because love was destroying everything I  cared about, I had to fall out." So begins  Caroline Knapp's searing account of her twenty-year  love affair with alcohol, the "liquid armor"  she used to protect herself from life's painful  realities: family tension, social insecurity, fear of  intimacy, her parents' deaths. Though she was for  twenty years a functioning alcoholic, few would  have suspected that beneath her attractive, Ivy  League veneer, this successful professional was a  young woman who had to drink herself to sleep every  night. She thought alcohol gave her the courage to  face life. It took her twenty years to admit that  drinking only made it more difficult to  bear.Written with warmth, candor, and wisdom, here  is one woman's story of addiction and recovery--a  story that begins in despair and loneliness, but  ends with the hope that within each of us lies the  strength to survive in the world without  anesthesia.

Drinking : A Love Story

Quartet Books Ltd.

Appetites: Why Women Want

Memoirs

ReadHowYouWant

Pack of Two (The Classic Collection)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

“Quietly moving…Caroline Knapp dazzles us with her heady description of alcohol’s allure and its devastating hold.” —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewIt was love at first sight. The beads of moisture on a chilled bottle. The way the glasses clinked and the conversation flowed. Then it became obsession. The way she hid her bottles behind her lover’s refrigerator. The way she slipped from the dinner table to the bathroom, from work to the bar. And then, like so many love stories, it all fell apart. Drinking is Caroline Knapp’s harrowing chronicle of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol.Caroline had her first drink at fourteen. She drank through her years at an Ivy League college, and through an award-winning career as an editor and columnist. Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, a sophisticated professional. Privately she was drinking herself into oblivion. This startlingly honest memoir lays bare the secrecy, family myths, and destructive relationships that go hand in hand with drinking. And it is, above all, a love story for our times—full of passion and heartbreak, betrayal and desire—a triumph over the pain and deception that mark an alcoholic life.“Filled with hard-won wisdom…[a] perceptive and revealing book.” —San Francisco Chronicle“Eloquent…a remarkable exercise in self-discovery.” —The New York Times“Drinking not only describes a triumph; it is one.” —Newsweek

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