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High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze (2013)

by Jill Stark(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

192207022X (ISBN13: 9781922070227)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Scribe Publications

review 1: This book takes a candid look at how alcohol is accepted as part of our lives. Journalist Jill Stark decided, after one of her customary heavy drinking, hangover-inducing nights out, to give up alcohol for the first time in her adult life. The ensuring story not only describes her personal challenges surviving as a non-, but also raises fundamental questions about the promotion of drinking in Australian society. “High Sobriety” could have been a very preachy novel. Instead it is an engaging read with just the right blend of stats and personal experience. Stark’s humour and engaging writing style provide the perfect vehicle for social commentary.
review 2: High Sobriety is a confronting book, not because it is difficult to read but because it asks us to th... moreink about our relationship to alcohol. Month by month it describes the challenges faced by the author when she decides to abstain from alcohol for a year. Part memoir and part analysis of the role alcohol plays in the life of Australians, it should make every reader re-evaluate their attitude to drinking. less

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