Pour Me: A Life

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE

”An intense, succulent read that”s intermittently dazzling” THE TIMES
”Chilling, exquisitely moving” DAILY TELEGRAPH
”A superb memoir – and one of the best books on addiction I have ever read” EVENING STANDARD

A. A. Gill”s memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon. He tells the truth – as far as he can remember it – about drinking and about what it is like to be drunk. He recalls the lost days, lost friends, failed marriages … But there was also an ”optimum inebriation, a time when it was all golden”.

Sobriety regained, there are painterly descriptions of people and places, unforgettable musings about childhood and family, art and religion; and most movingly, the connections between his cooking, dyslexia and his missing brother.

Full of raw and unvarnished truths, exquisitely written throughout, POUR ME is about lost time and self-discovery. Lacerating, unflinching, uplifting, it is a classic about drunken abandon.