Note found in a bottle
my life as a drinker
by Susan Cheever
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Born into a world ruled and defined by the cocktail hour, in which the solution to any problem could be found in a dry martini or another glass of wine, Susan Cheever led a life both charmed and damned. She and her father, the celebrated writer John Cheever, were deeply affected and troubled by alcohol.
Addressing for the first time the profound effects that alcohol had on her life, in shaping her friendships with men and in influencing her as a writer, Susan Cheever has written a memoir that is shocking and revealing.
She tells of her childhood obsession with the niceties of cocktails and all that they implied - sociability, sophistication, status - of college days spent drinking beer and cheap wine, of her three failed marriages, in which alcohol was the inescapable component, of a way of life that brought her perilously close to the edge.
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Susan Cheever| Edition | Availability |
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Note found in a bottle: my life as a drinker
1999, Simon & Schuster
in English
0684804328 9780684804323
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Note Found In a Bottle
Publish date unknown, Simon Schuster Trade
Paperback
0965078833 9780965078832
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"My grandmother Cheever taught me how to embroider, how to say the Lord's Prayer, and how to make a perfect dry martini."
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