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Caroline Knapp


Born
in The United States
November 08, 1959

Died
June 03, 2002

Genre
Nonfiction


Caroline Knapp was an American writer and columnist whose candid best-selling memoir Drinking: A Love Story recounted her 20-year battle with alcoholism.

From 1988-95, she was a columnist for the Boston Phoenix, where her column "Out There" often featured the fictional "Alice K." In 1994, those columns were collected in her first book, Alice K's Guide to Life: One Woman's Quest for Survival, Sanity, and the Perfect New Shoes.

Knapp won wide acclaim for Drinking: A Love Story (1996), which described her life as a "high-functioning alcoholic" and remained on the New York Times best-seller list for several weeks. She followed Drinking with Pack of Two, also a best-seller, which recounted her relationship with her dog Lucille and humans' relation ...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 29,321 ratings · 2,141 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors
Drinking: A Love Story
4.09 avg rating — 21,363 ratings — published 1996 — 39 editions
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Appetites: Why Women Want
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Pack of Two: The Intricate ...
4.03 avg rating — 2,958 ratings — published 1998 — 23 editions
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The Merry Recluse: A Life i...
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Alice K's Guide to Life: On...
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Facture
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アリス・K 女の生き方女の気持ち
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アルコール・ラヴァー―ある女性アルコール依存症者の告白
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“The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.”
― Caroline Knapp
tags: agenda, animals, dogs, simple
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“When you quit drinking you stop waiting.”
― Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
tags: alcoholism, drinking, sobriety
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“The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.”
― Caroline Knapp, Appetites: Why Women Want
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