Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780671040734)

Born into a world ruled and defined by the cocktail hour, in which the solution to any problem could be found in a dry martini or another glass of wine, Susan Cheever led a life both charmed and damned. She and her father, the celebrated writer John Cheever, were deeply affected and troubled by alcohol.
Addressing for the first time the profound effects that alcohol had on her life, in shaping of her relationships with men and in influencing her as a writer, Susan Cheever delivers an elegant memoir of clear-eyed candor and unsettling immediacy. She tells of her childhood obsession with the niceties of cocktails and all that they implied -- sociability, sophistication, status; of college days spent drinking beer and cheap wine; of her three failed marriages, in which alcohol was the inescapable component, of a way of life that brought her perilously close to the edge.
At once devastating and inspiring, Note Found in a Bottle offers a startlingly intimate portrait of the alcoholic's life -- and of the corageous journey to recovery.

Author: Susan Cheever
ISBN-10: 0671040731
ISBN-13: 9780671040734
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2000
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.58w x 0.51d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 01/14/2000 pg. 69