{"product_id":"drinking-a-love-story-paperback","title":"Drinking: A Love Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCaroline Knapp\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFifteen 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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. \u003ci\u003eDrinking\u003c\/i\u003e is Caroline Kapp's harrowing chronicle of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaroline 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDrinking\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Quietly moving . . . Caroline Knapp dazzles us with her heady description of alcohol's allure and its devastating hold.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Filled with hard-won wisdom . . . [a] perceptive and revealing book.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Eloquent . . . a remarkable exercise in self-discovery.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDrinking\u003c\/i\u003e not only describes triumph; it is one.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifteen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaroline Knapp was a contributor at \u003ci\u003eNew Woman \u003c\/i\u003emagazine and a regular columnist at \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Phoenix\u003c\/i\u003e, and her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eMademoiselle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous international magazines. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eAlice K's Guide to Life\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePack of Two\u003c\/i\u003e. Caroline Knapp died in 2002 at the age of 42. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8.06 x 5.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 30, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755662803232,"sku":"9780385315548","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/eeed18c6291bc0416bcb466ec3ad5604.webp?v=1780065164","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/drinking-a-love-story-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}