Cleaning Up

How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived

Tania Glyde (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2008 | Main
Serpent's Tail (Verlag)
978-1-85242-949-2 (ISBN)

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Exposing the culpability of the drinks industry, the enabling qualities of class, and a powerful sense of entitlement to drink until we fall over, this book explores why women drink, how to stop, and what life after alcohol is really like.

A tour of one woman's life with alcohol, and why she decided to give it up. Our relationship with alcohol is the longest most of us will ever have, and the most intense, though few of us will ever admit it. It is blamed for the rise in street violence, and women's increased consumption of it is the cause of relentless moral panic, but it also provides the main route to sexual experience, and to experimentation with drugs, something that policy-makers are reluctant to admit. Tania Glyde explores the reasons why she drank in the first place, why she carried on doing it - and found it the most effective 'gateway drug' ever - and the long slow car-crash of life events that finally convinced her to give it up. Through her own story, she looks at why women are drinking more, suggests that they may be kidding themselves, and explains what it's like to break the national taboo and live without alcohol.

Tania Glyde is a UK based author and journalist. She has written two novels to date, Clever Girl and Junk DNA. Her short stories appeared in the Disco 2000 and Vox n Roll anthologies. She was Time Out's sex columnist for two years.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.1.2008
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Gewicht	312 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen
ISBN-10	1-85242-949-6 / 1852429496
ISBN-13	978-1-85242-949-2 / 9781852429492
Zustand	Neuware