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A 5 page summary and analysis of this 1994 autobiography as it relates to the topic of alcoholism. No additional sources are used.
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with equal ease. His articles have appeared in The New York Post, The New York Daily News, Esquire, and The New Yorker, and he has also penned novels and
short stories as well but his greatest challenge was transferring his own life story onto the printed page. A Drinking Life is Pete Hamills odyssey from the mean streets
of Brooklyn onto a rocky road that would have eerie parallels to the self-destructive road traveled by Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, two of the preeminent writers of the
twentieth century. Much of Hamills autobiography focuses on his childhood in Brooklyn, and when he describes the thrill of the Dodgers winning the pennant the reader can almost hear
the chorus of ecstatic cheers. He discusses his love of sports and comic books; recounts his initiation into sex at the age of fifteen under the tutelage of Laura,
his 41-year-old art school mentor/lover; and reflects on his Irish heritage with great affection. Hamill devotes considerable time to his difficult relationship with his father, Billy, a colorful one-legged
man who would always remain a rather remote figure to his son because he preferred socializing in the local saloon to spending time at home with his wife and family.
It is his father who will introduce young Pete to alcohol, and Hamill will write of it as if it was his indoctrination into an exclusive male fraternity.
He will candidly describe encountering his father staggering down the street "drunk as a skunk" (21) while being supported by one of his drinking buddies to keep from falling.
Hamill will also recall hearing the sound of the laughter and jeers from the neighborhood children, including his best friend, and the taunts of "Your old mans an Irish drunk!"
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