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Pete Hamill
This bestselling memoir by longtime New York City reporter Pete Hamill has been praised as “a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction” ( New York Times ).
Growing up during the Depression and World War II, Hamill absorbed the idea that drinking was simply part of being a man — woven into celebrations, grief, friendship, love, and even faith. Only later did he realize how alcohol could steal a writer’s sharpest tools: clarity, awareness, and memory.
In A Drinking Life, he traces how drinking gradually took hold of his life and how he eventually chose to walk away from it. Along the way, he evokes the texture of a vanished New York and an America now long gone, with the affection of someone who lived it fully.
“Magnificent. A Drinking Life is about growing up and growing old, working and trying to work, within the culture of drink.” — Boston Globe
January 19, 1994 by Little, Brown and Company
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1994,
All Products,
Contemporary,
Memoir,
Nonfiction
