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ISBN:
9780316341028
Publication Date:
April 1995
Page Count:
280
€ 6.00
Book Description:
As a child during the Depression and World War ll, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseperable from the rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romance, and religion. Only later did he discover it's 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 lifetime New Yorker.