![]() ![]() Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, a sophisticated professional. She drank through her yeras at an Ivy League college, and through an award-winning career as an editor and columnist. Drinking is Caroline Kapp's harrowing chronicle of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol.Ĭaroline had her first drink at fourteen. And then, like so many love stories, it fell apart. The way she slipped from the dinner table to the bathroom, from work to the bar. The way she hid her bottles behind her lover's refrigerator. The way the glasses clinked and the conversation flowed. The beads of moisture on a chilled bottle. 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. 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. Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. ![]()
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