Pete Hamill A Drinking Life

Pete Hamill's autobiography is contained in this book, and explains all the roads that led to his Rome - a drinking life - and how he got himsel This was the author's mantra as he took the final step to shake a lifelong drinking habit built since his nursery days (through his family's acceptance of drinking as a way of life, coping with all that comes in hard family living). A drinking Life the kitchen, with its intricately patterned blue-and-red linoleum floors, and windows that opened into a garden where an elm tree rose higher than the house. The kitchen light was beautiful: suffused with a lemony green in summer, dazzling when winter snow garnished the limbs of the elm tree. A Drinking Life By PaulaGanziLicata, August 5, 2020. He was once the boozy Brooklyn writer, having a reputation for a mighty pen and an insatiable thirst. Then Pete Hamill turned his life around. Hamill was a recovering alcoholic for almost fifty years, having had his last drink in 1972.

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Overview

This bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is 'a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction' (New York Times).
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.
'Magnificent. A Drinking Life is about growing up and growing old, working and trying to work, within the culture of drink.' —Boston Globe

Description

This bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is 'a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction' (New York Times).
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. 'Magnificent. A Drinking Life is about growing up and growing old, working and trying to work, within the culture of drink.' --Boston Globe

Product Details

$17.99$16.55

Back Bay Books

April 01, 1995

280

5.56 X 0.76 X 8.27 inches | 0.56 pounds

English

Paperback

9780316341028

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About the Author

Pete Hamill (1935-2020) was a novelist, journalist, editor, and screenwriter. He was the author of twenty-two books, including the bestselling novels Tabloid City, North River, Forever, and Snow in August, and the bestselling memoir A Drinking Life.

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