An edition of Drinking life (1994)

A drinking life

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An edition of Drinking life (1994)

A drinking life

a memoir

1st ed.
  • 4 Want to read

Rugged prose and a rare attention to telling detail have long distinguished Pete Hamill's unique brand of journalism and his universally well received fiction. Twenty years after his last drink, he examines the years he spent as a full-time member of the drinking culture. The result is A Drinking Life, a stirring and exhilarating memoir float is his most personal writing to date.

The eldest son of Irish immigrants, Hamill learned from his Brooklyn upbringing during the Depression and World War II that drinking was an essential part of being a man; he only had to accompany his father up the street to the warm, amber-colored world of Gallagher's bar to see that drinking was what men did. It played a crucial role in mourning the death of relatives or the loss of a job, in celebrations of all kinds, even in religion.

In the navy and the world of newspapers, he learned that bonds of friendship, romance, and professional camaraderie were sealed with drink. It was later that he discovered that drink had the power to destroy those very bonds and corrode any writer's most valuable tools: clarity, consciousness, memory. It was almost too late when he left drinking behind forever

  1. Neither sentimental nor self-righteous, this is a seasoned writer's vivid portrait of the first four decades of his life and the slow, steady way that alcohol became an essential part of that life. Along the way, he summons the mood of a time and a place gone forever, with the bittersweet fondness of a lifetime New Yorker. It is his best work yet.
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Little, Brown
Language
English
Pages
265

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Published in
Boston

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Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5409, B
Library of Congress
PS3558.A423 Z463 1994, PS3558.A423Z463 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
265 p. ;
Number of pages
265

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Open Library
OL1418739M
Internet Archive
drinkinglifememo00pete
ISBN 10
0316341088
LCCN
93028629
OCLC/WorldCat
28634743
Library Thing
165588
Goodreads
1189774

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