Drinking: A Love Story

Name: Drinking: A Love Story
Rating: 4.04 (12234 reviews)
Author: Caroline Knapp
ISBN: 9780385315550.0

Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Psychology Biography & Memoir Self-Help

by Caroline Knapp

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4.04 (12.2K ratings)

calendar_today 1996

description 286 pages

Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp holds a highly rated rating of 4.04 out of 5, based on 12.2K reader ratings. First published in 1996. The book spans 286 pages.

About Drinking: A Love Story

The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored in this stylistic, literary memoir of drinking by a Massachusetts journalist. Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her well-to-do parents pushed her toward anorexia and alcoholism. Fittingly, it was literature that saved her: she found inspiration in Pete Hamill's 'A Drinking Life' and sobered up. Her tale is spiced up with the characters she has known along the way. A journalist describes her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic, explaining how she used alcohol to escape personal relationships and the realities of life until a series of personal crises forced her to confront her problem.

Detail	Value
Author	Caroline Knapp
Published	1996
Pages	286
Kindle Price	$14.99
Genres	Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Biography & Memoir, Self-Help
Average Rating	4.04 / 5.00
Total Ratings	12,234

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4.0

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12.2K ratings

With a rating of 4.04, Drinking: A Love Story is rated below the global average of 4.17. Compared to its genre average of 3.97, it performs on par.

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4.04

This Book

3.97

Biography & Memoir Average

4.17

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What genre is Drinking: A Love Story?

Drinking: A Love Story is categorized as Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Biography & Memoir. Its primary genre classification is Biography & Memoir.