A Drinking Life
A Memoir
Pete Hamill
This memoir tells the story of a man's journey to the brink of self-destruction through his relationship with alcohol. From his childhood during the Depression and World War II to later in his life when he left it behind, the author recounts how drinking became inseparable from life's rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romance, and religion. Readers will be transported to an America that no longer exists through the nostalgic lens of a lifelong New Yorker.
Publish Date
1995-04-01T00:00:00.000Z
1995-04-01T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.96
ISBN
9780316341028
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2020-08-05T14:58:13.000Z
Pete Hamill’s “A Drinking Life” was an important book to me. And the man wrote the notes on the back of Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks,” so you can’t top that... – source