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A Love Story
by Caroline Knapp
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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback (May 12 1997)
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A love story. Yes: this is a love story
It's about passion, sensual pleasure, deep pulls, lust, fears, yearning hungers. It's about needs so strong they're crippling. It's about saying good-bye to something you can't fathom living without. I loved the way drink made me feel

A love story. Yes: this is a love story
It's about passion, sensual pleasure, deep pulls, lust, fears, yearning hungers. It's about needs so strong they're crippling. It's about saying good-bye to something you can't fathom living without. I loved the way drink made me feel

Reader's Guide
Discuss the book's title. In what way is it a love story? What parallels exist between Caroline Knapp's 'affair' with alcohol and the way she experienced love throughout her life with family and friends as well as in romantic relationships?



Book Description

Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.

About the Author

Caroline KnappCaroline Knapp

Caroline Knapp's previous book, Drinking: A Love Story, was published in 1996. She is a contributor at New Woman magazine and a regular columnist at The Boston Phoenix, and her work has appeared in Mademoiselle, The New York Times, and numerous international magazines. She is also the author of Alice K's Guide to Life..

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