A Drinking Life: A Memoir
A Autobiography, Memoir, New York book. That was it. To be a rolling stone. In the romantic places of...
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- Pages: 265 pages
- ISBN: 9780316341080 / 316341088
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I wanted to sit there forever, drinking in bitter satisfaction, using someone else as a license. In the years that followed, I did a lot of that. Pete Hamill, A Drinking Life: A Memoir // For a long time, I was in love with her in that diffuse, ambiguous, and obsessive way that can never be explained to strangers. Pete Hamill, A Drinking Life: A Memoir // That was it. To be a rolling stone. In the romantic places of the earth. Ready for a fight, a frolic, or a feed. And since I was Irish, since I was Billy Hamill's son, since I was from Brooklyn: a drink too. Pete Hamill, A Drinking Life: A Memoir //
Pete Hamill has been one of my favorite authors and writers for a long time. This book covers ground and was published entirely before he entered my awareness. The story of his boyhood in Brooklyn, in The Neighborhood grabbed me, and didn't let me go until sometime in the mid 1970's when Pete Hamill heard his father singing on a hillside... I often think I can't remember that much about my childhood, comparatively speaking. You know those people who can provide you intricate detail of what they wore, and how they felt towards every teacher they ever had, and aesthetic details about houses? I thought I did not belong among them, until I read this book. It is probably very... More a memoir than a treatise on drinking, though drink certainly haunts Hamill throughout most of his life. Instead, its a story of a poor Irish Brooklyn boy with dreams beyond the culture of the neighborhood, who through trial and error eventually becomes a noted journalist and writer. Extremely readable and interesting, Hamill is...
