Drunkard
a hard-drinking life
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Word Count
67,500 words, Guess
Page Count
270 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedrunkardharddrin0000stei
- Internet Archivedrunkardharddrin0000stei_u7p3
- ISBN-139780525950653
- ISBN-100525950656
- LibraryThing5342541
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- Goodreads2386052
- Library of Congress Control Number2007051603
- OCLC Control Number185123412
- Better World Books9780525950653
- Open LibraryOL16364973M
Classifications
- DDC616.86/1092
- DDCB
- LCCHV5293.S75 A3 2008
and 1 more
- LCCHV5293.S75A3 2008
Description
An extraordinarily honest memoir about the life of a functioning alcoholic and the realities of recovery from a veteran columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times Neil Steinberg loves his wife. He loves his two young sons. He loves his job and his ramshackle old farmhouse in the suburbs. But he also loves to drink, a passion that rolls merrily along for twenty-five years until one terrible night when his two worlds collide and shatter. Drunkard is the story of one man's fall down the rabbit hole of alcoholism, and his slow crawl back out. Sentenced to an outpatient rehab program, Steinberg discovers that twenty-eight days of therapy cannot reverse the toll decades of vigorous drinking take on one's soul. In clear, distinctive, honest, and funny prose, Steinberg comes to grips with his actions, rebuilds his marriage, and reclaims his life. Unlike outlandish tales of addiction's extremes, Steinberg's story is a regular person's account of the stark-yet-common realities of a problem faced by millions around the world. Drunkard is an important addition to the pantheon of critically acclaimed, bestselling memoirs such as The Tender Bar, Drinking: A Love Story, and Smashed.
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