{"product_id":"note-found-in-a-bottle-my-life-as-a-drinker-9780671040734","title":"Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker","description":"Born into a world ruled and defined by the cocktail hour, in which the solution to any problem could be found in a dry martini or another glass of wine, Susan Cheever led a life both charmed and damned. She and her father, the celebrated writer John Cheever, were deeply affected and troubled by alcohol. \u003cbr\u003e Addressing for the first time the profound effects that alcohol had on her life, in shaping of her relationships with men and in influencing her as a writer, Susan Cheever delivers an elegant memoir of clear-eyed candor and unsettling immediacy. She tells of her childhood obsession with the niceties of cocktails and all that they implied -- sociability, sophistication, status; of college days spent drinking beer and cheap wine; of her three failed marriages, in which alcohol was the inescapable component, of a way of life that brought her perilously close to the edge. \u003cbr\u003e At once devastating and inspiring, \u003ci\u003eNote Found in a Bottle\u003c\/i\u003e offers a startlingly intimate portrait of the alcoholic's life -- and of the corageous journey to recovery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCheever, Susan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eSusan Cheever\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of thirteen previous books, including five novels and the memoirs \u003ci\u003eNote Found in a Bottle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHome Before Dark.\u003c\/i\u003e Her work has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e Winship Medal. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the Corporation of Yaddo, and a member of the Author's Guild Council. She teaches in the Bennington College M.F.A. program. She lives in New York City with her family.","brand":"Washington Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50326809477394,"sku":"9780671040734","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5f5aa6f2-f901-4cd4-b0be-0f1a82598803.jpg?v=1727705690","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/note-found-in-a-bottle-my-life-as-a-drinker-9780671040734","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}