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Any good books about alcoholism? Alcoholic narrators, books about family history of alcohol addiction?

>> No.20131382

Under the Volcano has an alcoholic narrator

>> No.20131454

>>20131375
The Lost Weekend is a short, at times depressing, and realistic read with an alcoholic protagonist.

>> No.20131456

>>20131375
Edgar Allen Poe was a chronic alcoholic, and some of his works feature alcoholism. Unfortunately I don't remember any specific names.

>> No.20131647

Good Morning, Midnight

>> No.20131779

>>20131375
Moscow to the End of the Line

>> No.20131855

>>20131375
The Drinker (Hans Fallada)

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>>20131375
The Lonely Passion Of Judith Hearne.
by Brian Moore. It's a decent read.

>> No.20133168

"How late it was, how late" won the booker prize

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>> No.20133181

>>20131375
zola - l'assomoire (the bottle shop)

>> No.20133182

>>20131375
Brideshead Revisited

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The tavern scene in Part I of Crime and Punishment. The Marmeladov family in general would produce the same effect upon temperance as Uncle Tom's Cabin on the slavery question.

>> No.20134659

>>20131454
2nd for this one; it's really staggering how spot-on Lost Weekend is

>> No.20134674

Leaving Las Vegas

>> No.20134719

>>20131375
Infinite Jest
>My father lay face-down in the mixture of the rectangle's thick dust and the material he'd brought up from his upset stomach. . . . The stomach material appeared to be mostly gastric blood until I recalled the tomato juice my father had been drinking.

>> No.20135478

>>20131375
Bumping for interest.

>> No.20135732

>>20131375
My diary desu