{"product_id":"books-those-drinking-days-by-donald-newlove","title":"Those Drinking Days","description":"\u003cp\u003eNovelist Donald Newlove (1928-2021) contemplates how alcoholism has affected the lives and work of other writers, as well as himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . a passionate blend: part autobiography, part confessional, part sketches of famous alcoholic writers and part sermon on the dangers of 'Drunkspeare' . . . its bird song and purling ravishment, bliss of self-love. . . . Like improvisational jazz . . . the Newlove sound is robust and swinging, the mark of a man who has discovered that his talent is intoxication enough. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- R.Z. Sheppard, \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNewlove's memoir makes \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Weekend\u003c\/em\u003e by Charles Jackson seem like a dull college weekend. It is, quite simply, terrifying, a tale to chill the blood of anyone who's ever hoisted a drink in a bar. It is a book with both literary merit and social value of the most redeeming sort imaginable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Judson Hand, \u003cem\u003eNew York Daily New\u003c\/em\u003es\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThose Drinking Days\u003c\/em\u003e ought to be read. It is an astonishing, moving memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Joel Oppenheimer, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53672815624465,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780578362212_cf830735-2702-4658-be23-5d6d8b09d554.jpg?v=1781521370","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-those-drinking-days-by-donald-newlove","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}