Caroline Knapp  | PGW

20,320원  | 20050501  | 9781582433141

캐럴라인 냅은 지적이고 유려한 회고록 성격의 에세이를 쓴 작가로, 2002년 마흔둘이라는 이른 나이에 세상을 떠났다. 냅은 살면서 몇몇 끔찍한 중독에 빠진 경험이 있는데, 삶의 불가사의한 두려움으로부터 달아나고 싶을 땐 술로, 그런 자기 자신을 호되게 통제하고 싶을 땐 음식을 거부했다. 그는 이런 자신의 깊은 내면 이야기를 솔직하게, 우아하게, 또렷하게 고백해 세상을 놀라게 했다. 『드링킹, 그 치명적 유혹(Drinking)』은 알코올 중독의 삶을, 『세상은 왜 날씬한 여자를 원하는가(Appetites)』는 다이어트 강박증과 섭식장애에 관한 기록이다. 개를 향한 지나친 애착이 염려스러울 정도로 개를 사랑하여 그 마음을 『남자보다 개가 더 좋아(Pack of Two)』라는 책에 담기도 했다. 『명랑한 은둔자』는 그의 유고 에세이집으로, 캐럴라인 냅이라는 작가의 삶 전반을 빼곡히 담고 있는 초상과 같은 책이다.

Caroline Knapp  | Dial Press

22,960원  | 19970601  | 9780385315548

Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it. It was love at first sight. The beads of moisture on a chilled bottle. The way the glasses clinked and the conversation flowed. Then it became obsession. The way she hid her bottles behind her lover's refrigerator. The way she slipped from the dinner table to the bathroom, from work to the bar. And then, like so many love stories, it fell apart. Drinking is Caroline Kapp's harrowing chronicle of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol. Caroline had her first drink at fourteen. She drank through her yeras at an Ivy League college, and through an award-winning career as an editor and columnist. Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, a sophisticated professional. Privately she was drinking herself into oblivion. This startlingly honest memoir lays bare the secrecy, family myths, and destructive relationships that go hand in hand with drinking. And it is, above all, a love story for our times-full of passion and heartbreak, betrayal and desire-a triumph over the pain and deception that mark an alcoholic life. Praise for Drinking “Quietly moving . . . Caroline Knapp dazzles us with her heady description of alcohol's allure and its devastating hold.”-Los Angeles Times Book Review “Filled with hard-won wisdom . . . [a] perceptive and revealing book.”-San Francisco Chronicle “Eloquent . . . a remarkable exercise in self-discovery.”-The New York Times “Drinking not only describes triumph; it is one.”-Newsweek