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Pour Me: A Life
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Shortlisted for the 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize, this is a compulsive memoir of addiction and recovery by A. A. Gill, 'by miles, the most brilliant journalist of our age' (Lynn Barber).
A. A. Gill''s memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon. He tells the truth - as far as he can remember it - about drinking and about what it is like to be drunk. He recalls the lost days, lost friends, failed marriages... But there was also an ''optimum inebriation, a time when it was all golden''.
Sobriety regained, there are painterly descriptions of people and places, unforgettable musings about childhood and family, art and religion; and most movingly, the connections between his cooking, dyslexia and his missing brother.
Full of raw and unvarnished truths, exquisitely written throughout, ''Pour Me'' is about lost time and self-discovery. Lacerating, unflinching, uplifting, it is a classic about drunken abandon.
Sobriety regained, there are painterly descriptions of people and places, unforgettable musings about childhood and family, art and religion; and most movingly, the connections between his cooking, dyslexia and his missing brother.
Full of raw and unvarnished truths, exquisitely written throughout, ''Pour Me'' is about lost time and self-discovery. Lacerating, unflinching, uplifting, it is a classic about drunken abandon.
Weight | 0.240000 |
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Author | Gill, A. A. |
Availability | IP |
Department | Biography |
Format | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781780226439 |
Pages | 256 |
Published | 17/11/2016 |
Publisher | Orion Publishing Group |
Section | Biography |
Size Unfolded | 196x130mm |
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