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Smashed

Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Story of a Drunken Girlhood

By Koren Zailckas

By Koren Zailckas

By Koren Zailckas

By Koren Zailckas

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Jan 31, 2006 | ISBN 9780143036470

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Jan 31, 2006 | ISBN 9781101191392

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    About Smashed

    Garnering a vast amount of attention from young people and parents, and from book buyers across the country, Smashed became a media sensation and a New York Times bestseller. Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas’s story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics—yet—but who routinely use booze as a shortcut to courage and a stand-in for good judgment.

    With one stiff sip of Southern Comfort at the age of fourteen, Zailckas is initiated into the world of drinking. From then on, she will drink faithfully, fanatically. In high school, her experimentation will lead to a stomach pumping. In college, her excess will give way to a pattern of self-poisoning that will grow more destructive each year. At age twenty-two, Zailckas will wake up in an unfamiliar apartment in New York City, elbow her friend who is passed out next to her, and ask, “Where are we?” Smashed is a sober look at how she got there and, after years of blackouts and smashups, what it took for her to realize she had to stop drinking. Smashed is an astonishing literary debut destined to become a classic.

    About Smashed

    Garnering a vast amount of attention from young people and parents, and from book buyers across the country, Smashed became a media sensation and a New York Times bestseller. Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas’s story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics—yet—but who routinely use booze as a shortcut to courage and a stand-in for good judgment.

    With one stiff sip of Southern Comfort at the age of fourteen, Zailckas is initiated into the world of drinking. From then on, she will drink faithfully, fanatically. In high school, her experimentation will lead to a stomach pumping. In college, her excess will give way to a pattern of self-poisoning that will grow more destructive each year. At age twenty-two, Zailckas will wake up in an unfamiliar apartment in New York City, elbow her friend who is passed out next to her, and ask, “Where are we?” Smashed is a sober look at how she got there and, after years of blackouts and smashups, what it took for her to realize she had to stop drinking. Smashed is an astonishing literary debut destined to become a classic.

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    About Koren Zailckas

    Koren Zailckas is the author of the internationally bestselling memoir Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood and has contributed writing to The Guardian, US News & World Report, Glamour, Jane, and Seventeen. She currently lives with her family in the Catskill Mountains of New York. To… More about Koren Zailckas

    About Koren Zailckas

    Koren Zailckas is the author of the internationally bestselling memoir Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood and has contributed writing to The Guardian, US News & World Report, Glamour, Jane, and Seventeen. She currently lives with her family in the Catskill Mountains of New York. To… More about Koren Zailckas

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Psychology

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 31, 2006 | 384 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143036470

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Psychology

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 31, 2006 | 368 Pages | ISBN 9781101191392

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    Praise

    “Bookstores are flooded with boozy bios by former girls gone wild.” This one rises to the top. –People

    “Poised and elegiac… Smashed goes down with a slow, genteel burn.” –The New York Times Book Review

    “A mortifyingly credible story.” –The New York Times

    “Brilliant and horrifying.” –The Baltimore Sun

    Table Of Contents

    Preface

    Initiation
    First Taste
    First Waste
    First Offense
    Coma Girl

    The Usual
    All You Can Drink
    Greek Mythology

    Excess
    You’re Pretty When I’m Drunk
    Love in the Time of Liquor
    Beer Tears

    Abuse
    Ascent and Decent
    Liquid Heart
    The End Has No End
    The Still-to-Learn

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