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A Drinking Life: A Memoir

20 years after his last drink Pete Hamill looks back on his early life. As a child during the depression and World War II he learnt that drinking was to be an essential part of being a man, it was only later he discovered its ability to destroy lives.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 280 pages

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