What makes Knapp''s account fascinating is her ruthless dissection of a picture-perfect middle-class family, her candid analysis of her high functioning journalistic career, and a weird elegy for the 1980s.'
The late Carolyn Knapp, who dissected her alcoholism in DRINKING: A LOVE STORY (1996), here writes about her battles with anorexia. Beginning in college and continuing throughout her adulthood, Knapp talks frankly about her own behavior and also takes the occasion to muse about the cultural influences that can be destructive to women. She also ...
Carolyn Knapp's previous books have been about dogs, alcoholism, anorexia--all from her own very personal point of view. In this collection of essays--posthumously published a year after her premature death at age 42--Knapp revisits some of these preoccupations. But she widens her perspective, writing also about such topics as her love of solitude ...
First collected in 1892, these famous poems by Kipling portray the experiences of soldiers sent around the world to defend the British Empire--all for little pay and less appreciation. This edition features a new Introduction and Annotations by Andrew Lycett. Original.
Find out what thousands of Boston Phoenix readers already know: Alice K. (not her real initial) is the smartest, funniest, best friend you never had! Join her in this fresh and hilarious trek across the landmines of our confounding '90s as she searches for fulfillment amongst life's limitless colorful accesories.
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