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Heather King - Author
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| Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 304 pages | ISBN 9780451220066 | 05 Sep 2006 | NAL | 18 - AND UP |
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One woman's journey to the bottom of the bottle-and back again.
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 from the abyss by her family, 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.
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