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Author: Mallory O'Meara ,
Mallory O'Meara
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Imprint: Hanover Square Press
Edition: Library Edition
ISBN: 9781799959267
ISBN 10: 1799959260
Publication Date: 19 October 2021
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
At last, the feminist history of booze we've been waiting for! -- Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist Thorough and thoroughly entertaining...Elegantly woven into each cheeky chapter is rigorous historical context...Serves as bracing refreshment from a master textual mixologist. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) A raw shot of boozy history that stings as well as it soothes! -- Patton Oswalt, New York Times bestselling author Cheers to Mallory O'Meara and her serious yet seriously entertaining treatise on the history of gendered drinks. Girly Drinks will introduce you to queens and nuns, bootleggers and bartenders, telling their stories and proving the point that all drinks are girly drinks. -- Jeanette Hurt, author of Drink Like a Woman
A raw shot of boozy history that stings as well as it soothes! -- Patton Oswalt, New York Times bestselling author Cheers to Mallory O'Meara and her serious yet seriously entertaining treatise on the history of gendered drinks. Girly Drinks will introduce you to queens and nuns, bootleggers and bartenders, telling their stories and proving the point that all drinks are girly drinks. -- Jeanette Hurt, author of Drink Like a Woman From winemakers and distillers to activists, leaders, and change-makers, Girly Drinks takes us on a whirlwind tour of the role women have played in what we drink, and how, when, and why we drink it. -- Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist
Author Information
Mallory O'Meara is the award-winning and bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick. It won the 2019 SCIBA Book Award for Biography and the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award, and was nominated for both a Locus and a Hugo Award. Every week, Mallory cohosts the literary podcast Reading Glasses. A New England native, she now lives in the mountains near Los Angeles with her two cats, where she is at work on her latest nonfiction book. Bourbon is her drink of choice. Mallory O'Meara is the award-winning and bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick. It won the 2019 SCIBA Book Award for Biography and the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award, and was nominated for both a Locus and a Hugo Award. Every week, Mallory cohosts the literary podcast Reading Glasses. A New England native, she now lives in the mountains near Los Angeles with her two cats, where she is at work on her latest nonfiction book. Bourbon is her drink of choice.
