The Drunks

by Donald Newlove

Alcoholism - Fiction

342 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Donald Newlove was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1928, and currently lives in New York City's Greenwich Village. As a reporter, book reviewer, and short story writer, his work appeared in Esquire, New York Magazine, Evergreen Review, and The Saturday Review. His first novel, The Painter Gabriel (1970), was hailed by Time Magazine as "one of the best fictional studies of madness, descent, and purification that any American has written since Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Newlove is the author of several other novels, a series of books on the art of writing, and the critically acclaimed memoir, Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers (1981).

Reviews

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well if it didn't rock my world as all-encompassingly as leo and theodore (the temperance crusading against demon rum gets to be de trop in places, there's some inside baseball re a.a. that got a lil bit obscure, & more casual racism bandied about) there are some set pieces that are absolutely unforgettable: grand theft bread truck, the twins' misadventures on the subway, & a visit to a friend named andy with a bustling silver-spraypainted loft... in summation, [insert plug for tough poets' reissue of sweet adversity here]!