Appetites
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
The author draws on her own experience with anorexia to consider the challenge of women to know and honor their wants in a culture that would control a woman's expression of desire.
Caroline Knapp Book order
November 8, 1959 – June 3, 2002
Caroline Knapp was an American writer and columnist whose best-selling memoir candidly recounted her decades-long battle with alcoholism. Her work is characterized by unflinching honesty and a sharp insight into the human condition, often exploring personal struggles and the search for self. Knapp tackled themes of addiction, relationships, and the quest for meaning with a unique blend of vulnerability and resilience. Her writing resonates with readers for its authenticity and its capacity to articulate complex emotional landscapes.
- 2003
- 1999
Confronting profound loss and personal transformation, Caroline Knapp explores her identity after giving up alcohol and losing her parents. Amidst her uncertainty, she discovers companionship and healing through an eight-week-old puppy named Lucille, whom she adopts from a shelter. As Lucille grows, she becomes a vital source of joy and connection in Knapp's life, helping her navigate vulnerability and redefine her sense of self. This journey highlights the transformative power of love and companionship in overcoming life's challenges.
- 1996
"It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out." So begins Drinking: A Love Story, journalist Caroline Knapp's brave and powerful memoir of her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic. Knapp writes that she loved liquor the way she loved bad men and, like all tragic love stories, hers is a tale of seduction and betrayal, a testament to the alluring but ultimately destructive powers of addiction. Fifteen million Americans a year are afflicted with the disease of alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Caroline Knapp, for example, started drinking at age fourteen. She drank through her years at an Ivy League college, through an award-winning career as a lifestyle editor and columnist. Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, attentive friend, sophisticated professional. Privately she was drinking herself into oblivion, trapped in love relationships that continued to undermine her self-esteem - until a series of personal crises forced her to confront and ultimately break free of the "liquid armor" she'd used to shield herself from the complicated battles of growing up. Caroline Knapp's ruthless self-examination, moral courage, and singular ability as a writer inform this remarkable memoir with many new insights about alcoholism, but more important, with many profound insights about life.
