A Drinking Life: A Memoir -- Pete Hamill

<b>This bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction (<i>New York Times</i>). </b><br> 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. <br>In <i>A Drinking Life</i>, 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. <p/><b>Magnificent. <i>A Drinking Life</i> is about growing up and growing old, working and trying to work, within the culture of drink. --<i>Boston Globe</i></b><br><br><b>Author:</b> Pete Hamill<br><b>Publisher:</b> Back Bay Books<br><b>Published:</b> 04/01/1995<br><b>Pages:</b> 280<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.56lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.27h x 5.56w x 0.76d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780316341028<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Pete Hamill</b> (1935-2020) was a novelist, journalist, editor, and screenwriter. He was the author of twenty-two books, including the bestselling novels <i>Tabloid City</i>, <i>North River</i>, <i>Forever</i>, and <i>Snow in August</i>, and the bestselling memoir <i>A Drinking Life</i>.</p>