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December 2011
On Sale: November 22, 2011
463 pages
ISBN: 1936740028
EAN: 9781936740024
Kindle: B005SZN9Z0
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Non-Fiction Memoir
"Alan Kaufman recounts with unvarnished honesty the story of
the alcoholism that took him to the brink of death, the PTSD
that drove him to the edge of madness, and the love that
brought him back. Son of a French Holocaust survivor,
Kaufman was a drinker so mauled by his indulgences that it
is a marvel that he hung on long enough to get into
recovery. With his estranged daughter as inspiration,
Kaufman cleaned himself up at age 40, taking full
responsibility for nearly destroying himself, his work, and
so many loved ones along the way. Kaufman minces no words as
he looks back on a life pickled in self-pity, self-loathing,
and guilt. Reading Drunken Angel is like watching an
accident to see if any of the victims crawl away barely
alive. Kaufman did, and here he delivers a lacerating,
cautionary tale of a life wasted and reclaimed"--
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