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Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers
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ISBN13: 9780578362212
Publisher: Tough Poets Press
Published: Mar 1 2022
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Novelist Donald Newlove (1928-2021) contemplates how alcoholism has affected the lives and work of other writers, as well as himself.
. . . a passionate blend: part autobiography, part confessional, part sketches of famous alcoholic writers and part sermon on the dangers of 'Drunkspeare' . . . its bird song and purling ravishment, bliss of self-love. . . . Like improvisational jazz . . . the Newlove sound is robust and swinging, the mark of a man who has discovered that his talent is intoxication enough.
- R.Z. Sheppard, Time
Newlove's memoir makes The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson seem like a dull college weekend. It is, quite simply, terrifying, a tale to chill the blood of anyone who's ever hoisted a drink in a bar. It is a book with both literary merit and social value of the most redeeming sort imaginable.
- Judson Hand, New York Daily News
Those Drinking Days ought to be read. It is an astonishing, moving memoir.
- Joel Oppenheimer, New York Times
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