Pour me a life

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Label

Pour me a life

Statement of responsibility

A.A. Gill

Creator

• Gill, A. A., 1954-2016

Author

• Gill, A. A., 1954-2016

Subject

• Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation
• Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Autobiographies
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Biography
• Drinking of alcoholic beverages
• Gill, A. A, 1954-
• Gill, A. A, 1954-2016 -- Alcohol use
• Great Britain
• Journalists
• Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Alcoholics
• Alcoholics -- Great Britain -- Biography

Genre

• Biography
• Biographies
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

"An astounding and brilliant memoir, A.A. Gill's Pour Me a Life is a riveting meditation on the author's alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death. Best known for his hysterically funny and often scathing restaurant reviews for the London Sunday Times, journalist Adrian Gill writes about his near-fatal alcoholism in this extraordinary lucid memoir. By his early twenties, at London's prestigious Saint Martin's art school, Gill was entrenched in his addiction. He writes from the handful of memories that remain, of drunken conquests with anonymous women, of waking to morbid hallucinations, of emptying jacket pockets that "were like tiny crime scenes," helping him puzzle his whereabouts back together. Throughout his recollections, Gill traces his childhood, his early diagnosis of dyslexia, the deep sense of isolation when he was sent to boarding school at age eleven, the disappearance of his only brother, whom he has not seen for decades. When Gill was confronted at age thirty by a doctor who questioned his drinking, he answered honestly for the first time, not because he was ready to stop, but because his body was too damaged to live much longer. Gill was admitted to a thirty-day rehab center--then a rare and revolutionary concept in England--and has lived three decades of his life sober. Written with clear-eyed honesty and empathy, Pour Me a Life is a haunting account of addiction, its exhilarating power and destructive force, and is destined to be a classic of its kind"--

Has edition

• Pour me

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 362.292092
• B

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV5447.G55

LC item number

A3 2016

Literary form

non fiction