Caroline Knapp

Drinking: a Love Story Caroline Knapp

Publisher Marketing: Quietly moving Caroline Knapp dazzles us with her heady description of alcohol s allure and its devastating hold. "Los Angeles Times Book Review" It was love at first sight. The beads of moisture on a chilled bottle. The way the glasses clinked and the conversation flowed. Then it became obsession. The way she hid her bottles behind her lover s refrigerator. The way she slipped from the dinner table to the bathroom, from work to the bar. And then, like so many love stories, it all fell apart. "Drinking" is Caroline Knapp s harrowing chronicle of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol. Caroline had her first drink at fourteen. She drank through her years at an Ivy League college, and through an award-winning career as an editor and columnist. Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, a sophisticated professional. Privately she was drinking herself into oblivion. This startlingly honest memoir lays bare the secrecy, family myths, and destructive relationships that go hand in hand with drinking. And it is, above all, a love story for our times full of passion and heartbreak, betrayal and desire a triumph over the pain and deception that mark an alcoholic life. Filled with hard-won wisdom [a] perceptive and revealing book. "San Francisco Chronicle" Eloquent a remarkable exercise in self-discovery. -"The New York Times" "Drinking" not only describes a triumph; it is one. "Newsweek"" Review Citations: Library Journal 11/15/1997 (EAN 9780553478327, Analog Audio Cassette) New York Times 06/08/1997 pg. 32 (EAN 9780385315548, Paperback) Booklist 09/15/2004 pg. 225 (EAN 9780385315548, Paperback) Publishers Weekly 05/05/1997 (EAN 9780385315548, Paperback) Entertainment Weekly 03/06/2015 pg. 72 (EAN 9780385315548, Paperback) Publishers Weekly 03/25/1996 pg. 68 (EAN 9780385315517, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/15/1996 pg. 132 (EAN 9780385315517, Hardcover) New York Times 06/02/1996 pg. 34 (EAN 9780385315517, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 04/15/1996 pg. 578 (EAN 9780385315517, Hardcover) Booklist 05/01/1996 pg. 1476 (EAN 9780385315517, Hardcover) Library Journal 07/01/1996 pg. 141 (EAN 9780385315517, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1996 pg. 106 (EAN 9780385315517, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 786 (EAN 9780385315517, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Knapp, Caroline Caroline Knapp was a contributor at New Woman magazine and a regular columnist at The Boston Phoenix, and her work has appeared in Mademoiselle, The New York Times, and numerous international magazines. She is also the author of Alice K's Guide to Life and Pack of Two. Caroline Knapp died in 2002 at the age of 42. Contributor Bio:  Zackman, Gabra Debut author and actor Gabra Zackman knows romance. "Game On "was inspired by the more than 100 romance and women's fiction titles she has narrated for audio. Zackman divides her time between her native New York City and Denver, Colorado.