Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker: A Memoir

Author:	Cheever, Susan
Binding:	Paperback
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Overview

ISBN:	9780671040734
Publisher:	Washington Square Press
Language:	English
Page Count:	192
Publication Date:	1/1/1999
Size:	8.54" l x 5.49" w x 0.57"
Series:	N/A

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Biography & Autobiography	Specific Groups

Simultaneously sobering and intoxicating, Note Found in a Bottle is a touching memoir that also offers a fascinating look at America's drinking habits during the past few decades. Without preaching or moralizing, Cheever describes her life as a drinker, analyzing the part that alcoholism played in her marriages, her friendships, and her career. Beginning with the memory of being taught to make a martini at the age of six by her grandmother, Cheever uses anecdote to illuminate the various roles that alcohol plays in American culture: as a social lubricant, as an emotional anesthetic, and as a status symbol. Cheever demonstrates the insidious progression of her own addiction to alcohol, and shares with us her own struggle to gain control of her life.