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Through a Glass, Darkly
Wakefield, Dan | February 7, 1994 issue

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This article presents information about the book "A Drinking Life: A Memoir," by Pete Hamill. The newspaper columnist, novelist and short-story writer Pete Hamill stopped drinking twenty years ago. The book is not just about Hamill's seduction by booze but about a tragic tradition, one whose grisly effects are foretold in the introduction. It is about his friends from the drinking life who have died and are dying, unable to break the pattern, stop the self-poisoning ritual. Hamill's book joins the new literature that eloquently shows a drinking life isn't the way to a writing life, or any productive life at all.

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DRINKING Life: A Memoir, A (Book); HAMILL, Pete; BOOKS; DRINKING of alcoholic beverages; ALCOHOLICS; ALCOHOLISM
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