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- From: "dale smoak" <dale.smoak@channel1.com>
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: alcoholics synonymous
- Message-ID: <199221.1479.23653@channel1>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 06:11:32 EST
- Reply-To: "dale smoak" <dale.smoak@channel1.com>
- Distribution: rec
- Organization: Channel 1 Communications
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- In article <1992Dec13.1479.23155@channel1>, "dale smoak"
- <dale.smoak@channel1.com> writes:
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- In article <hyj2#8#rpi.edu> kasprj@rpi.edu writes:
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- In article <1992Dec14.152650.23874@samba.oit.unc.edu> Joan Shields
- writes:
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- Me:
- >>>*Alcoholics Anonymous*. In other words, the so-called big book of AA.
- >>>The real life first person accounts in it can't be beat.
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- Jim:
- >> On that note, I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Barry Longyear's
- >>_St. Mary Blue_, which he based on his experiences in a recovery program.
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- Joan:
- >I'll put my biased two cents in as well. if you find a copy give it a
- >read. It's a very realistic view of what it's like in an alcohol
- >treatment facility. It's not icky sweet or moralistic or sermon.
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- Along the same lines is the great poet John Berryman's novel *Recovery*.
- It's written in first-person. Its narrator describes his experiences in
- a treatment facility that uses AA's program. The book may not be sodden
- with booze but it is awash in the watery thinking of an alcoholic who is
- struggling to break through all of that.
-
- Dale
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