A Drinking Life
A Memoir
Pete Hamill
This bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is "a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction" (New York Times). As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseparable from the rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romanc...
Publish Date
1995
April 1
First Published in 1994
Goodreads rating
3.91
ISBN
9780316341028
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Aug 05, 2020
Pete Hamill’s “A Drinking Life” was an important book to me. And the man wrote the notes on the back of Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks,” so you can’t top that... – source