Unwasted: (eBook)

My Lush Sobriety

Sacha Z. Scoblic (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
240 Seiten
Kensington (Verlag)
978-0-8065-3516-6 (ISBN)

Infos

';Triumphant, moving, and wildly entertaining. This is an unabashed and completely relatable account of getting clean and getting a life.'Steve Geng, author of Thick as ThievesThe single glass of wine with dinner . . . the cold beer on a hot day . . . the champagne flute raised in a toast . . . what I'd drink if Hunter S. Thompson wanted to get wasted with me . . . these are my fantasies lately.Too bad Ive gone sober. When Sacha Z. Scoblic was drinking, she was a rock star; the days were rough and the nights filled with laughter and blackouts. Then she gave it up. She had to. Here are her adventures in an utterly and maddeningly sober worldand how she discovered that nothing is as odd and fantastic as life without a drink in hand. . . ';A gripping, inspiring tale that picks up where most sobriety memoirs leave off . . . This is a story for anyone trying to enact meaningful change in their lives.'Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, #1 New York Times-bestselling coauthors of The Nanny Diaries ';Hilarious and heartbreaking,Unwastedis a traveler's guide to the perilous, wondrous land of sobriety. Scoblic's scorched, sweet prose is the work of a writer at the top of her form.'Jennifer Finney Boylan, New York Times-bestselling author ofShe's Not There ';Scoblic's testament to life on the wagon is pertinent and raffish, marked by considerable candor and humor. A dryly witty, spirited memoir.'Kirkus Reviews

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: adams mor-gan • addiction • addiction books • adult children of alcoholics • Adventure • Alcoholics Anonymous • alcoholism • autobiographies • Autobiography • backsliding • Beer • Binge Eating • Biographies • Biographies and Memoirs • biographies of famous people • Biography • Blackouts • booze • Champagne • Change • clean liv-ing • Codependency • Coming of Age • Conscience • contradictions • Depression • Drugs • Ecstasy • Fantasies • Finances • gay clubs • graduate degree • Happiness • high functioning • Human nature • husband • Imagination • journalist autobiography • laughter • Liquor • marriage • Memoir • Memoirs • Mental Health • mental health books • Mental Illness • mental illness books • Narcotics Anonymous • Neurology • new repub-lic • Nightlife • on the wag-on • panic attacks • personal memoir • political books • Politics • positive thinking • Psychiatry • psychiatry books • Psychology • psychology book • psychology books • quit smoking • Recovery • Relapse • Self destruction • self help books • sobriety • social proto-cols • teetotaler • Washington DC • wine • writer autobiography
• ISBN-10: 0-8065-3516-4 / 0806535164
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-3516-6 / 9780806535166