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Drunken Angel: A Memoir
| Full title: | Drunken Angel: A Memoir |
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| ISBN: | 9781936740321 |
| ISBN 10: | 193674032X |
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| Publisher: | Viva Editions |
| Edition: | Reprint |
| Num. pages: | 464 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Language: | en |
| Published on: | 2013 |
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Synopsis
This outlaw hero is someone to cheer for. -Foreword Reviews
Alan Kaufman has been compared to Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Hubert Selby Jr., and even Ernest Hemingway, another soldier turned writer. Drunken Angel drops like a sledgehammer: an exhilarating account of a life-long battle with alcoholism and a magnificent rise into sobriety that takes us from East Village park benches and reciting Kaddish in Dachau to the pages of The New York Times. Along the way, Kaufman shares revealing portraits of mentors and friends, including Allen Ginsberg, Kathy Acker, Barney Rosset, Anthony Burgess, Elie Wiesel, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Bernard Malamud. Now a leading voice of the children of Holocaust survivors, Kaufman delivers a lacerating, cautionary tale of a life wasted and reclaimed through love and storytelling.