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Plot Summary of Drinking
""Drinking" follows Caroline Knapp through her struggle with alcohol, from the first drinks of her younger years to meeting in a church basement. Knapp is painfully honest throughout, which offers the reader a fresh look inside an alcoholic mind."
Kerri Walter, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Drinking
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Plot
Phys disability/mental struggle? Yes
Struggle with - alcohol
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - writer
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - American (!)
How sensitive is this person? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other people
Physique - druggie/wino disease

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 6 ()
United States Yes
Century: - 1980's-Present

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Book makes you feel? - thoughtful
Is book humorous? Yes
If humorous, kind of humor - Dry-cynical - satire
Commentary on society? Yes
Writer's slant towards subject: - favorable
Story of entire life, or part? - story of set of events during life
Autobiography? Yes
Pictures/Illustrations? - None
How much dialogue in bio? - significantly more descript than dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices? Yes
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 0-25% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story? - 0-25% of book
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