A Drinking Life
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.
Author: Hamill Pete
ISBN: 9780316054539
Year of publication: 2008
Genre: Biography
Number of pages: 367
Reading time: 6 h. 7 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
