Pour Me
Weidenfeld & Nicolson TPB $39.99 RRP/EB $24.99 RRP
A.A. Gill's compulsive memoir of the lost year
between the end of his marriage and the end of his drinking.
Aged
thirty, at a treatment centre in the west of England, A. A. Gill lay in the
last-chance saloon, in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. His dark yet
laugh-out-loud memoir charts the year between the end of his marriage and the
end of drinking, on April 1st. Or perhaps it was not a year - it might be only
six months or eighteen. The one charity of drink is that it strips away memory.
So
this book is an attempt to resurrect the boat that was going the other way, and
its cargo, its log of how he got here. Being A. A. Gill, this is no
faith-infused tale of redemption. It isn't an account of a debauched
drink-and-drug hell; there will be no lessons to learn; or handy hints or
golden rules. But it is a brilliant, funny, and wise book by our greatest
journalist.
About The Author: A. A. Gill is probably the most read columnist in
Britain. Every weekend he entertains readers of the Sunday Times with his
biting observations on television and his unsparing, deeply knowledgeable
restaurant reviews, which have been published as Paper View and Table
Talk.
He has written three books on travel: A. A. Gill is
Away, Previous Convictions and A. A. Gill is Further Away, as
well as two novels, and full-length studies of England, The Angry Island, and America,
The Golden Door.
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