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Item Details
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LAST DRINK TO LA
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| By: |
John Sutherland |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1780722281 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781780722283 |
| Publisher: |
SHORT BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2015 |
| Edition: |
2nd edition |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Description: |
Thirty-one years ago John Sutherland nearly lost everything to drink. It was time to sober up. Or die. Last Drink To LA is part reportage, part confession - not a temperance tale (told to terrify, inform and instruct), not what AA calls a 'drunkalog', but a moving and thought-provoking meditation - some thinking about drinking. |
| Synopsis: |
I touched bottom, as alcoholics like to say, on 12 February 1983 (the date is slightly fuzzy). Thirty-one years ago John Sutherland nearly lost everything to drink. A married man, with family, working as a visiting professor of English on the west coast of America, he awoke from a blackout to find he was lying next to a stranger - a very strange stranger. This was his morning of clarity; it was time to sober up. Or die. Last Drink To LA is part reportage, part confession, in which John takes a frank look at drinking culture on both sides of the Atlantic, weighing up the pros and cons of Alcoholics Anonymous, which since its launch nearly a century ago has sparked hot debate. Is it a cult, or the best life-saver drinkers have? What John courageously 'shares' here is not a temperance tale (told to terrify, inform and instruct), not what AA calls a 'drunkalog', but a moving and thought-provoking meditation - some thinking about drinking and the devastating effects it has on individuals, families and society at large. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Short Books Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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