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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I had read a fairly good review of Parched in my bar association's newsletter, which noted the author had made it through law school in a drunken stupor. The law school portion of her life takes up only a few pages in the book, though the rest of the book is alternately fascinating and repelling. King starts drinking in high school and stays partially inebriated for the next twenty years. We see her life -- filthy living conditions, going-nowhere jobs -- through her caustic wit. She's quite perceptive in seeing the flaws of others (and is quite comical doing so), but she never manages to turn that gaze inward. It takes a family intervention (which mostly ends the book, a bit too quickly) to dry her out. It's interesting to see how other people live, and this story takes us close to the lowest depths in our modern society. It's a captivating story at times. But I'm hesitant to offer this as pre-reading for law school, as the author got through those three years and passed the bar exam wasted, and that's probably not the best message to send. If you're looking for a sometimes funny, seemingly honest account of someone's struggle with alcohol this is a good book. If you're looking for the next car wreck to be more spectacular than the last you might want to look for whatever current author has made up their life story to entertain you. I'm going to guess that recovering alcoholics will like this book more than soap opera fans. If you're both, then I'm not sure. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
One woman's journey to the bottom of the bottle--and back. In this tragicomic memoir about alcoholism as spiritual thirst, Heather King--writer, lawyer, and National Public Radio commentator--describes her descent into the depths of addiction. Spanning a decades-long downward spiral, King's harrowing story takes us from a small-town New England childhood to hitchhiking across the country to a cockroach-ridden "artist's" loft in Boston. Waitressing at ever-shabbier restaurants, deriving what sustenance she could from books, she became a morning regular at a wet-brain-drunks' bar--and that was after graduating from law school. Saved by her family from the abyss, King finally realized that uniquely poetic, sensitive, and profound though she may have been, she was also a big-time mess. Casting her lot with the rest of humanity at last, she learned that suffering leads to redemption, that personal pain leads to compassion for others in pain, and, above all, that a sense of humor really, really helps. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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