Drinking

A Love Story

By: Caroline Knapp

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...