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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Dial Press Trade Paperback | | Edition: | Later Printingth Edition | | Page Count: | 304 Pages | | Publication Date: | May 12, 1997 | | Sales Rank: | 10,663th |
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Product Description
A journalist describes her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic, explaining how she used alcohol to escape the realities of life and personal relationships, until a series of personal crises forced her to confront her problem. Reprint. 90,000 first printing." |
Amazon.com Review
The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored in this stylistic, literary memoir of drinking by a Massachusetts journalist. Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her well-to-do parents pushed her toward anexoria and then alcoholism. Fittingly, it was literature that saved her: She found inspiration in Pete Hamill's A Drinking Life and sobered up. Her tale is spiced with the characters she's known along the way. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 160 reviews)
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Nancy Hartman by N. Hartman  5 Stars
August 25, 2009
The "gift of desperation" is what this author calls what gave her the strength and motivation to quit drinking. A while ago, out of curiosity, I checked out this book from the library and never forgot it. I recently decided to add a copy of the book to my own library and I am so glad I did! It's all that I remember it being and more! It is truly an easy read and very well written. What I love about this book is that it gives me an insight into the world of someone who drinks. It helps to put a human face on the addiction of alcohol instead of a judgment call or simply seeing the addiction as a weakness in another person. I so much appreciate the author's truthfulness. I would highly recommend this book for those under the influence of alcohol-who want to break free, their families, friends and even just the curious. I've given this book as a gift and would do so again. Please consider this book if alcohol, in any way, affects your life- it's worth its weight in gold!
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Stylistically written by Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL) 5 Stars
April 27, 2009
Wonderful literary tour-de-force on a difficult topic makes this confessional one of the best memoirs ever about alcoholism. Just when you think things can't get worse, the author ends her chapters by noting things such as it took her five more, ten more etc, years before she finally quit. A great read all around.
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The Journey from Alcoholism to Recovery by Bonnie Brody (Fairbanks, Alaska) 5 Stars
April 05, 2009
This book is an extraordinary memoir of the author's journey through alcoholism
to recovery.
Knapp explores the role that alcohol plays in creating a diversion and false sense
of protection from her emotional life. Without the experiences of learning through
failures and successes, one stays inert, governed by the shame and self-loathing
brought on by alcohol. The only thing that helps remedy the shame and self-
loathing is alcohol and so the vicious cycle repeats.
Knapp describes the deceit, ambivalence, denial and shallowness of alcoholic in-
terpersonal dynamics. She reconstructs her family of origin and tries to see how
her father's alcoholism and the family rules of constraint, controlled emotion and
honoring the sacred elephant in the living room are intrinsic to her own self. She
subscribes to her family's rules of no passion, no anger except when drunk.
How the author gets to treatment, begins recovery and learns to tolerate her emo-
tions, ultimately discovering who she is is articulately presented in this book. In
addition, Knapp describes the broad range of feelings and life choices available to
her once she is in recovery.
As a clinical social worker and marriage and family therapist, I choose a few books
to give to my clients. This is one I give to alcoholics or those who love an alcoholic.
It is by far one of the very best books ever written about the journey from addiction
to recovery.
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Great transaction! thanks!!! by Wendy K. Wells 5 Stars
March 19, 2009
great transaction, thanks!!! item arrived in exact condition i was expecting and it came right on time!
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Magnificent book by Alkie 5 Stars
February 18, 2009
Offers a literate and searing insight into the alcohlic mind, but also the promise of hope for alcoholics. In spite of the detail of her descent into addiction, I still have a hard time seeing Caroline Knapp as an alcoholic. In that sense, the points in her book on denial are very poweful.
The tragedy is that this remarkable woman only had a few of years of sobriety before her early death from cancer. The triumph is that she died in serene sobriety.
A must read for anyone interested in alcoholism or addiction.
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