John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (961 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003VFTKZ2 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 226 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A Uniquely Candid Autobiography" according to Lindiane. Following the worst of London's alcoholic periods he wrote this autobiography beginning with his first taste of alcohol, his first experience at being drunk,and his first hangover-all at the age of five. London went on to "earn his manhood spurs" through hard drinking at the steamy waterfront bars on the San Francisco Bay. Claiming never to have acquired a taste for the stuff, London stresses the important role of the saloon in cultivating alcoholism in yo. "London's unsparing look at the lure (and danger) of alcohol" according to M. Bromberg. The novelist and adventurer Jack London was an alcoholic at an early age. This colorful memoir -- one of the first in America to treat the issue of alcohol abuse -- was written to encourage the prohibition efforts of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. London does condemn the overuse of alcohol, but his barroom tales make an equally strong case for its allure. The emphasis London places on the reasons why people drink, and drink to excess, fills this b. "Shame on Amazon" according to the watchman. for continuing to sell these wretched "General Books LLC" editions. For those who don't know, these are optically scanned uncorrected (in other words, riddled with errors, sometimes to the point of unreadability) OCR editions of books that are available online at no cost in much more readable pdf. To make matters worse, they usually cost more than pefectly good typeset real books. Don't waste your time or money on this dreck. Why, Amazon, why?
Jack London wrote this autobiography through the eyes of John Barleycorn, a reference to alcohol. He describes his struggle with an addiction to alcohol.