A Drinking Life
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...
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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 a writer's tools: clarity; consciousness; memory. The author explains how alcohol slowly became part of his life, and how he ultimately left it behind. Along the way, this book summons the mood of an America that is gone forever.
A paperback edition from 1996 of A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill. It runs to 265 pages, in fine condition. Stock is limited to the copies on our shelves in Kuwait. Shelved under Biography & Memoir. Wrapped with care for collectors and shipped from Kuwait.
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