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Drinking

Drinking

by Caroline Knapp

1996AlcoholicsRecovering alcoholicsPersonal NarrativesAlcoholismBiography
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First lines

I DRANK.

About this book

Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.

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AlcoholicsRecovering alcoholicsPersonal NarrativesAlcoholismBiographyCase studies
First published 1996

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Setting

United States

About the author

Caroline Knapp

1959 – 2002

Author

Caroline Knapp

First published

1996

Pages

258

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

7

Language

English

Publisher

Dial Press

ISBN

9780440334088

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