
A Drinking Companion: Alcohol and Writers' Lives
A Nonfiction, Biography book. What a great book! If you are interested in the rediculous, socially unacceptable excesses...
In an effort to cut back on his drinking, F. Scott's Fitzgerald briefly limited himself to only one glass of beer--thirty times aday. Dashiell Hammett drank himself into a writer's block that lastedthirty years, and John Cheever conquered a decade-long addiction tocreate his greatest novel. Malcolm Lowry would drink anything fromgin to formaldehyde, while housewife/poet Anne Sexton always traveledwith a thermos full of martinis. In her book "Drinking Companion:Alcohol and the Lives of Writers," Kelly Boler looks at the manydifferent ways that liquor ran through the lives and works of fifteengreat writers. Told from varying vantage points--fame and obscurity,glamour and despair, suicide and recovery, shame and bravado --thesestories shed an important light on the role that alcohol played in thereal lives of...
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- Pages: 176 pages
- ISBN: 9781580421454 / 1580421458
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What a great book! If you are interested in the rediculous, socially unacceptable excesses of some of the greatest writers of the 20th century, you can't do much better than this book. Great material... Terrible writing. Anyone interested in the effects of alcohol, or the lives of writers