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Pour Me: A Life

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A. A. Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon - driven to dry out, not out of a desire to change but mainly through weariness. He tells the truth - as far as he can remember it - about drinking and about what it is like to be drunk. Pour Me is about the black-outs, the collapse, the despair: 'Pockets were a constant source of surprise - a lamb chop, a votive candle, earrings, notes written on paper and ripped from books,' and even, once, a pigeon. 'Morning pockets,' he says, 'were like tiny crime scenes.' He recalls the lost days, lost friends, failed marriages ... But there was also 'an optimum inebriation, a time when it was all golden, when the drink and the pleasure made sense and were brilliant'. Sobriety regained, there are painterly descriptions of people and places, unforgettable musings about childhood and family, art and religion, friendships and fatherhood; and, most movingly, the connections between his cooking, dyslexia and his missing brother. Full of raw and unvarnished truths, exquisitely written throughout, Pour Me is about lost time and self-discovery. Lacerating, unflinching, uplifting, it is a classic about drunken abandon.

About the Author :
A. A. Gill (1954-2016) was born in Edinburgh. He was the TV and restaurant critic and regular features-writer for the Sunday Times, a columnist for Esquire and contributor to Australian Gourmet Traveller. His books include A. A. Gill is Away, The Angry Island, Previous Convictions, Table Talk, Paper View, A. A. Gill is Further Away, The Golden Door and Lines in the Sand, as well as two novels and the memoir Pour Me, which was shortlisted for the 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize. The Best of A. A. Gill, a collection of his journalism, was published in 2017.

Review :
He is still, by miles, the most brilliant journalist of our age. - Lynn Barber Very, very funny - GQ Underlying all the hype, the wit, the glittering rococo brilliant of his style, there is also the most solid and underrated of journalistic virtues - the power to convey a scene in words so that readers feel they are present - Daily Telegraph


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780297609704
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Weight: 352 gr
  • ISBN-10: 029760970X
  • Publisher Date: 12 Nov 2015
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: A Life
  • Width: 154 mm


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