Drinking

A Love Story

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Self Help, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book Drinking by Caroline Knapp, Random House Publishing Group
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Caroline Knapp ISBN: 9780440334088
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication: August 2, 1999
Imprint: The Dial Press Language: English
Author: Caroline Knapp
ISBN: 9780440334088
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication: August 2, 1999
Imprint: The Dial Press
Language: English

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.

It 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 fell apart. Drinking is Caroline Kapp's harrowing chronicle of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol.

Caroline had her first drink at fourteen. She drank through her yeras 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. 

Praise for Drinking

“Quietly moving . . . Caroline Knapp dazzles us with her heady description of alcohol's allure and its devastating hold.”Los Angeles Times Book Review

“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 triumph; it is one.”Newsweek

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

It 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 fell apart. Drinking is Caroline Kapp's harrowing chronicle of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol.

Caroline had her first drink at fourteen. She drank through her yeras 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. 

Praise for Drinking

“Quietly moving . . . Caroline Knapp dazzles us with her heady description of alcohol's allure and its devastating hold.”Los Angeles Times Book Review

“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 triumph; it is one.”Newsweek

More books from Random House Publishing Group

Cover of the book At the Water's Edge by Caroline Knapp
Cover of the book Sarah's Sin by Caroline Knapp
Cover of the book Dying in the Dark by Caroline Knapp
Cover of the book The Little Black Book of Success by Caroline Knapp
Cover of the book When Work Doesn't Work Anymore by Caroline Knapp
Cover of the book The Penguin Lessons by Caroline Knapp
Cover of the book Buff Moms by Caroline Knapp
Cover of the book The Witch's Daughter by Caroline Knapp
Cover of the book A Cold Day in Hell by Caroline Knapp
Cover of the book Fantastic Voyage by Caroline Knapp
Cover of the book The Conspiracy Club by Caroline Knapp
Cover of the book When You Wish Upon a Duke by Caroline Knapp
Cover of the book Ice by Caroline Knapp
Cover of the book Elizabeth of York by Caroline Knapp
Cover of the book Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other by Caroline Knapp
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy