| Description |
xx, 342 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Initiation : First taste ; First waste ; First offense ; Coma girl -- Usual : All you can drink ; Greek mythology -- Excess : You're pretty when I'm drunk ; Love in the time of liquor ; Beer tears -- Abuse : Ascent and descent ; Liquid heart ; The end has no end ; The still-to-learn. |
| Summary |
From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual." With the stylistic freshness of a poet and the dramatic gifts of a novelist, Zailckas describes her first sip at fourteen, alcohol poisoning at sixteen, a blacked-out sexual experience at nineteen, total disorientation after waking up in an unfamiliar New York City apartment at twenty-two, when she realized she had to stop, and all the depression, rage, troubled friendships, and sputtering romantic connections in between. |
| Subject |
Zailckas, Koren.
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Zailckas, Koren. |
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Women alcoholics -- United States -- Biography.
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Women alcoholics. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Women -- Alcohol use -- United States.
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Women -- Alcohol use. |
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Girls -- Alcohol use -- United States.
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Girls -- Alcohol use. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Girls. |
| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Zailckas, Koren. Smashed. New York : Viking, 2005 (OCoLC)681503303 |
| ISBN |
0670033766 hardcover acid-free paper |
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9780670033768 hardcover acid-free paper |
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