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A 3 page summary and review of Caroline Knapp's story "Drinking: A Love Story." No additional sources cited.
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book describes her drinking habits and her slow decline until she realized she had a problem. The following paper provides a summary and review of this book. Drinking: A
Love Story Knapps book begins with the words "I drank" (Knapp 1). She illustrates in the first page how she drank all the time it seems. She drank across the
street from work, drank when she was happy, anxious, depressed, or anything. She drank. In all of this she is setting the stage for the reader, setting the stage that
will illustrate what she did with her life as she drank it away. Throughout her books she moves through various chapters in her life that help to illustrate the
life she led as a drinker, despite the fact that she claims she was a very functional drinker. Though there are many times in the book when the reader will
wonder how she thought she was a functional drinker, or a functional alcoholic. For example, she mentions how she would perhaps often wake up next to a man, "perhaps you
know him, perhaps you dont" (Knapp 77). This indicates that she did this quite a bit and that when she went to bed with one man or another she was
not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to simply get drunk and it would
be easier. In fact, she states that she could not even imagine having sex without alcohol once she was immersed in her drinking (Knapp 86). In her story she
also uses the examples of other people she knew, drinkers, who she could somehow see very clearly for their drinking problems when she could not see her own. This is
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