A Drinking Life: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by HAMILL, Pete

• Book ID: 108061713
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 225 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780316054539

✦ Synopsis

As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseparable from the rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romance, and religion. Only later did he discover its ability to destroy any writer's most valuable tools: clarity, consciousness, memory. In A Drinking Life , Hamill explains how alcohol slowly became a part of his life, and how he ultimately left it behind. Along the way, he summons the mood of an America that is gone forever, with the bittersweet fondness of a lifelong New Yorker.