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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Pour Me: A Life
Author: GILL A A
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 17/11/2016
Imprint: PHOENIX
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
‘A. A. Gill, the man who makes a living getting beneath the skin of things, whether it’s television, restaurants or places round the world – has skinned himself’ Vanity Fair A. A. Gill’s memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon. He tells the truth – as far as he can remember it – about drinking and about what it is like to be drunk. He recalls the lost days, lost friends, failed marriages …But there was also an ‘optimum inebriation, a time when it was all golden’. Sobriety regained, there are painterly descriptions of people and places, unforgettable musings about childhood and family, art and religion; and most, movingly, the connections between his cooking, dyslexia and his missing brother. Full of raw and unvarnished truths, exquisitely written throughout, Pour Me is about lost time and self-discovery. Lacerating, unflinching, uplifting, it is a classic about drunken abandon.
ISBN: 9781780226439
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 256