TWO TALL DRUNKS: A Spiritual Tale of Recovery (Aging and Amateur Knowedge) - Softcover

Mellencamp, Patricia

9780985328214: TWO TALL DRUNKS: A Spiritual Tale of Recovery (Aging and Amateur Knowedge)

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ISBN 10: 0985328215 ISBN 13: 9780985328214

Publisher: Pell-Mell, Limited, 2017

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Two Tall Drunks is an intimate account of a valium addict's story, written by a scholar of film and television who now has many years of sobriety in AA. For years, she hid her addiction, functioning as a popular professor, hostess, dutiful daughter, and mother/single parent to two talented, highly achieving children. Her tale is a ruthlessly honest portrayal of the underbelly of this appearance of normalcy, including a scholar's analysis of the disease's false logic and its harmful effects on family members. TTD takes us into an addict's mind; it portrays despair and sobriety/treatment (at the Betty Ford Center) as emotional roller coasters. Then come the revelations of the AA path of sanity and recovery, resulting in a lifelong practice of meditation. This is the first book in a series, Aging and Amateur Knowledge -- Being 40, Being 50, & Being 60. II is titled Love, Death & Siddha Yoga: My Mother & My Guru; III is The SandGrit in the Oyster that Makes the Pearl: Marriage and Buddhism

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About the Author

Patricia Mellencamp is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of many essays and seven books on film and television, including A Fine Romance, High Anxiety, and Indiscretions. Currently she lives in Monterey, California and Los Cabos, Mexico

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