A Drinking Life

“A vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction,” the national bestselling memoir from the acclaimed New York City journalist ( 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, romance, and religion. Only later did he discover its ability to destroy any writer’s most valuable tools: clarity, consciousness, memory. In A D