Her time in a bottle Caroline Knapp's memoir recounts her painful love affair with alcohol

The Boston Globe | May 1, 1996| | Copyright

CAMBRIDGE -- Honestly, can you imagine a man describing his alcoholism like this?

"It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out."

Well, that is how writer Caroline Knapp opens her memoir, titled, femininely enough, "Drinking: A Love Story."

The Boston Phoenix columnist, who is 36, had her first drink as a young teen-ager, 13 or 14 years old, and her last a little more than two years ago. In those intervening years she graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and has worked as a journalist. She never wrote drunk, ...

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