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Description
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. Reprint. 90,000 first printing."
Memorable Quotes
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“I loved the rituals, the camaraderie of drinking with others, the warming, melting feelings of ease and courage it gave me. I loved the sounds of drink: the slide of a cork as it eased out of a wine bottle, the distinct glug-glug of booze pouring into a glass, the clatter of ice cubes in a tumbler”
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“Recycling is a problem to the active alcoholic: you have to see all those bottles, heaped together in the recycling bin, and that can be a disconcerting image”
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“alcohol the way you'd avoid running into an ex-lover at a restaurant. I once heard a woman say that as an alcoholic, a part of her will always be deeply attracted to alcohol, which seemed a very simple way of putting it, and very true”
First Sentence
I DRANK.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Caroline Knapp (Author)
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