I need a work of fiction dealing with alcoholism?
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Question by cd12117: I need a work of fiction dealing with alcoholism?
I’m in English 11 Honors, and our semester-long assignment is to read a fiction book and relate it to a current issue. I want to do alcoholism, but I’m not sure what book to relate it to. ***IT HAS TO BE A WORK OF FICTION*** Any suggestions? (Please write the title and the author’s name!) Thanks!!
Best answer:
Answer by Marta V
“Best Foot Forward” by Joan Bauer is a GREAT book! The girl’s father is an alcoholic. It’s important enough to the story that you’d be able to use it 
I hope you like it!
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September 6th, 2010 at 7:21 am
Try ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ by Alan Sillitoe. The main character is quite the heavy drinker and gets in trouble for it. I found it to be a good read.
September 6th, 2010 at 7:39 am
The only one I can think of would be “The After Life”
Another thing you can do is look on Google, or even Barns And Noble.
But, I’ll do it for you.
Here is what I got:
- Arc and the Sediment
- Kentucky Rain
- Journey on the Roads Less Traveled
- I’ll Fix You! I’ll Kill Me!: Alcoholism Made Easy
- The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux Series #1)
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- Under the Volcano (P.S. Series)
- Ceremony
Sorry I don’t have any of the author’s names.
Hope this helped.
September 6th, 2010 at 8:28 am
Rummies by Peter Benchley is pretty good. Yes, it is by the guy who wrote Jaws. Anyway, I read it a while back and thought it was a good story.
September 6th, 2010 at 9:05 am
The Shining- Stephen King
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September 6th, 2010 at 9:27 am
“Ironweed” by William J Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/Ironweed-William-J-Kennedy/dp/0140070206/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223406900&sr=1-2
“People sometimes unsuccessfully surrender themselves to their fantasies, their ideologies, and thus, make big mistakes, for to err is human. The protagonist in William Kennedy’s Ironweed – Francis Phelan – is certainly no exception. He is a man who has made one too many mistakes. From the murdering of a scab, to his accidentally killing his son, to taking refuge in alcohol, to family abandonment, it becomes a grim picture of a life not worth living. All this stretches out before and beyond the Great Depression of 1929.”