A drinking life : a memoir / Pete Hamill.
A drinking life : a memoir / Pete Hamill.
By
:
Hamill, Pete, 1935-
Publication Date
:
1994
Publication Information
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Boston : Little, Brown,
Edition
:
1st ed.
Physical Description
:
265 p.
Subject Term
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Irish Americans -- Social life and customs.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Alcoholics -- Biography.
Drinking customs -- United States.
Summary
:
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.
Language
:
English
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Summerford (GSD) | Adult Bio | Adult Biography | B H18 | Checked In |