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Kniha o závislosti na alkoholu a o vysvobození. Příběh schopné, úspěšné a inteligentní ženy.

Byla to láska na první pohled. Krůpěje vláhy na vychlazené láhvi. Zvuk cinkajících sklenek během plynoucí konverzace. Pak se to stalo posedlostí. To, jak ukrývala láhve za lednicí svého milence. Jak vyklouzla od večeře do koupelny, z práce do baru. A pak, jako v tolika jiných milostných příbězích, se všechno rozpadlo. Pití je trýznivá kronika dvacetiletého milostného poměru Caroline Knapp s alkoholem.
Caroline se poprvé napila ve čtrnácti....

Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.

At the age of 36, Caroline Knapp, author of the acclaimed bestseller Drinking: A Love Story, found herself confronted with a monumental task: redefining her world. She had faced the loss of both her parents, given up a twenty-year relationship with alcohol, and, as she writes, "I was wandering around in a haze of uncertainty, blinking up at the biggest questions: Who am I without parents and without alcohol? How to form attachments, and where to find comfort, in the face of such daunting vulnerability?" An answer materialized in the most unlikely form: that of a dog. Eighteen months to...