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Author Knapp, Caroline, 1959-2002.

Title Drinking : a love story / Caroline Knapp.

Publication Info. New York : Dial Press, 1996.

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  362.292 KNAPP    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY KNAPP    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B KNAPP    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B KNAPP    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  362.292 KNA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  362.29 KNA    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.29 KNAPP    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Whiton Branch - Non Fiction  362.29 KNAPP    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B KNAPP    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-KNAPP KNA    Check Shelf

Description 258 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Form Also issued online.
Summary "It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out." So begins Drinking: A Love Story, journalist Caroline Knapp's brave and powerful memoir of her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic. Knapp writes that she loved liquor the way she loved bad men and, like all tragic love stories, hers is a tale of seduction and betrayal, a testament to the alluring but ultimately destructive powers of addiction. Fifteen million Americans a year are afflicted with the disease of alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Caroline Knapp, for example, started drinking at age fourteen. She drank through her years at an Ivy League college, through an award-winning career as a lifestyle editor and columnist. Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, attentive friend, sophisticated professional. Privately she was drinking herself into oblivion, trapped in love relationships that continued to undermine her self-esteem - until a series of personal crises forced her to confront and ultimately break free of the "liquid armor" she'd used to shield herself from the complicated battles of growing up. Caroline Knapp's ruthless self-examination, moral courage, and singular ability as a writer inform this remarkable memoir with many new insights about alcoholism, but more important, with many profound insights about life.
Contents Love -- Double Life I -- Destiny -- Hunger -- In Vodka Veritas -- Sex -- Drinking Alone -- Addiction -- Substitution -- Denial -- Giving Over -- A Glimpse -- Double Life II -- Hitting Bottom -- Help -- Healing.
Subject Knapp, Caroline, 1959-2002.
Alcoholics -- United States -- Biography.
Recovering alcoholics -- United States -- Biography.
Alcoholism -- United States -- Case studies.
Alcoholism -- Personal Narratives.
Other Form: Online version: Knapp, Caroline, 1959-2002. Drinking. New York : Dial Press, 1996 (OCoLC)604044993
ISBN 0385315511 hardcover
9780385315517 hardcover
0385315546 PB
9780385315548 PB
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