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  <title><![CDATA[A Drinking Life: A Memoir]]></title>
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  <default_description>An acclaimed author offers an honest self-portrait of coming of   age in a culture that considers drinking an essential part of becoming   a man and reveals how it nearly destroyed his ability to write.   Reprint. 60,000 first printing. Tour. &lt;i&gt;NYT. &lt;/i&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pete Hamill]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title of this book made me think it would be a memoir about overcoming alcoholism. It was, instead, a fairly engaging read about an accomplished writer who was born in 1935, a poor kid in New York. While his father was a drinker, and the author too had alcohol in his life, at page 185 (where I l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75179907">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6741550">
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    <location><![CDATA[Colfax, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just love this guys writing. Even in the telling of his life you get caught up in the characters and the development of how he comes to be who he is. A must read for journalists for sure. I finished this one and thought...I need to read the other things he's written.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 04 18:37:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely sentimental, A Drinking Life waxes nostalgic while deftly building a case for the rationality of Hamill's alcoholism.  From reading most of the book's reviews, it seems to have worked.  Three-quarters of the novel are devoted to the first 14 years of Hamill's life; it's obvious to this rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54965129">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40932860">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 26 09:15:34 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 26 09:23:13 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had originally read Hamill's &quot;Downtown&quot; and loved it (I'm a history buff).  So I picked this up instead of any of his fiction thinking it would be more stories about old New York.  So imagine my delighted surprise when I found out that he actually grew up less than a block from where I c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40932860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27095563">
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 12 23:30:00 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 12 23:30:24 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[With A Drinking Life, Hamill has written the great American proletarian memoir. Which is no small feat considering, aside from his working class roots, Hamill has become anything but a proletariat. I’m not disputing he was a hard working journalist who put his time in writing for the New York Post...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27095563">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12206187">
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    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 10 19:00:56 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 10 19:03:43 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hamill, the veteran New York journalist turned novelist, wrote this memoir in the early 90s, describing his early years growing up in Brooklyn (Park Slope when it was a working class neighborhood), finding his way to books and art, bars, school, jobs, and finally into the newspaper life. Attendant t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12206187">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61878790">
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    <name><![CDATA[Peter]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 02 07:08:13 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 02 07:34:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[For those of us who have read Hammill's fiction, this biography provides many keys to the construction of those stories as well as to the man who wrote them. He offers an unvarnished look into the whole of his life, warts and all. Like all of us, Hammill has enormous faults but has learned that, &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61878790">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17264624">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lisa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Boston, MA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Mar 07 16:04:15 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pete Hammill takes you there in this autobiography...and I had a hard time putting the book down.  The story is compelling, the writing clear and the emotions are amazing.  Men love this book - and it's easy to see why (women I've recommended it to like it too).   For anyone who has ever felt like t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17264624">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57538635">
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    <name><![CDATA[Gayle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bryn Mawr, PA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 27 15:33:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 02 15:03:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been a fan since I first read Hamill's FOREVER.  Hoping for some interesting insight on the author I picked up A Drinking Life at the library.  While I enjoy reading it and seeing the parallels between the main characters of his books which I know see are just thinly veiled characters from hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57538635">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15578914">
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    <location><![CDATA[Redondo Beach, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 16 13:30:58 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 16 13:42:09 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The New York based writer Pete Hamill's drinking and the adverse effects it has had on his lifetime and the colorful characters all around him. From his roots growing up on the tough streets of Brooklyn, working in the Navy shipyards,  learning to draw from Burne Hogarth, being thrown in jail in Mex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15578914">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70289542">
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    <location><![CDATA[Richmond, VA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 06 17:03:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 06 17:04:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had trouble finishing this book as I felt some of the details could have been omitted. I also had trouble staying focus as the plot seemed to go on longer than it needed to it some areas. Not a bad read, just okay.]]></body>
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    <review id="39406724">
    <user id="775796">
    <name><![CDATA[Shoshana]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I could not relate to the drinking, Pete Hamill's personal story is quite engaging and I enjoyed the history of Park Slope and Windsor Terrace included as a backdrop.]]></body>
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    <review id="17512063">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jason]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New Albany, IN]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 11 09:25:09 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 03 20:25:10 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you've read both <em>Angela's Ashes</em> and <em>'Tis</em> – by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt – then <em>A Drinking Life</em> (Little, Brown and Company, 1994) is going to be redundant simply because there are so many similarities between the two authors and their respective work. How so? Well, for starte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17512063">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72483609">
    <user id="791555">
    <name><![CDATA[Chris]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a lot more than an addiction memoir.  It's really the story of growing up in mid-20th Century Brooklyn (park slope actually.)  He's a great writer.]]></body>
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    <review id="22584430">
    <user id="432083">
    <name><![CDATA[Trish]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 19 18:22:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 29 22:01:04 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not a deep book but is pretty good at describing how drinking is the main measure for coming of age (for men anyway) in the irish Catholic culture. Pete Hamill drinks a ton of mostly beer in this memoir -- you start to feel a little queasy reading it --  and then abruptly stops drinking towa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22584430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53023083">
    <user id="2230578">
    <name><![CDATA[Kim]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Boston, MA]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[Great Irish memoir; I highly recommend to those who liked Angela's Ashes. I didn't like any of his subsequent works of fiction though. ]]></body>
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    <review id="8808665">
    <user id="607453">
    <name><![CDATA[Russell]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 07 15:41:09 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 08 11:29:43 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is hardly about drinking. It's about growing up in a working class family and realizing there are things beyond your own little world that can be worked towards or stumbled upon and this is what makes life rich and interesting.<br/><br/>His portrayal of actual drinking is dead on, howeve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8808665">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7869359">
    <user id="123975">
    <name><![CDATA[Jamie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw this book jacket framed, signed by Hamill, and hanging on the wall when I was drinking bottled beers at Old Town bar near Union Square last summer. Judging by the title and my proximity to booze at the time, I decided I had to read it. <br/><br/>I liked this book's voice -- particuarly the d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7869359">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[quick to read. was not what i thought it would be. not so much about drinking or not drinking. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great memoir on an incredible journalist. Also good commentary on life in the 40s and 50s in NYC.]]></body>
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