Description
A Massachusetts journalist explores the roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family in this stylistic, literary memoir.
Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her well-to-do parents pushed her toward anorexia and 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 up with the characters she has known along the way.
A journalist recounts her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic, explaining how she used alcohol to escape personal relationships and the realities of life until a series of personal crises forced her to confront her problem.