Distilled Spirits: Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk
Author:   Don Lattin
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520272323


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   18 October 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Don Lattin
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780520272323


ISBN 10:   0520272323
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   18 October 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Wounded 2. Bloomsbury 3. Revelation 4. Abroad 5. Hollywood 6. Trabuco 7. Psychedelic 8. Sixties 9. Sober Acknowledgments and Amends Notes Bibliography Index

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The key figure in this 'blend of memoir and biography' is Lattin, whose narrative arc might be the strangest. He somehow balanced his religion reportage with a descent into cocaine addiction and alcoholism, and he sees this book as a crucial element in his ongoing sobriety. . . . 'One of the things I learned from AA is that many of us drink in an effort to quench a religious thirst, ' he writes. 'It's how we get some temporary relief from the spiritual emptiness.' -- Kirkus Reviews


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Don Lattin is the author of The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America, Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge, Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape our Lives Today and Shopping for Faith: American Religion in the New Millennium. For more information, please visit www.donlattin.com.

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