Blackout

4.02 (19,997 ratings by Goodreads)
Regular price €14.55
Regular price €16.99 Sale Sale price €14.55
A.A. Gill
A01=Sarah Hepola
AA Gill
addiction
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
alcohol
Author_Sarah Hepola
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=BGLA
Category=BM
Category=DNBL1
Category=DNC
Category=VFJK
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
drinking
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_health-lifestyle
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_non-fiction
feminism
Language_English
Lena Dunham
Not That Kind Of Girl
PA=Available
Pour Me
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
recovery
softlaunch
young women

Product details

  • ISBN 9781473616103
  • Weight: 172g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Jan 2016
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days
: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available
: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

'SIMPLY EXTRAORDINARY' New York Times

'It's such a savage thing to lose your memory, but the crazy thing is, it doesn't hurt one bit. A blackout doesn't sting, or stab, or leave a scar when it robs you. Close your eyes and open them again. That's what a blackout feels like.'


For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was 'the gasoline of all adventure'. She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call. Drinking felt like freedom, part of her birthright as an enlightened twenty-first-century woman.

But there was a price. She often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should be. Mornings became detective work on her own life. What did I say last night? How did I meet that guy?
Publicly, she covered her shame with self-deprecating jokes, and her career flourished, but as the blackouts accumulated, she could no longer avoid a sinking truth. The fuel she thought she needed was draining her spirit instead.

A memoir of unblinking honesty and poignant, laugh-out-loud humor, BLACKOUT is the story of a woman stumbling into a new adventure-the sober life she never wanted. Shining a light into her blackouts, she discovers the person she buried, as well as the confidence, intimacy, and creativity she once believed came only from a bottle. Her tale will resonate with anyone who has been forced to reinvent themselves or struggled in the face of necessary change. It's about giving up the thing you cherish most-but getting yourself back in return.

A raw, vivid and ultimately uplifting memoir of addiction and recovery for anyone who is looking to find their way.

Sarah Hepola has written many stories about drinking and eating too much. Her essays on culture have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Elle, The New Republic, Glamour, the Guardian, Slate, the Morning News, and Salon, where she was a longtime editor.
Her past jobs include: Travel columnist, music editor, film critic, sex blogger, and for about 15 seconds in the late '90s, she taught high school English.
She lives in East Dallas, where she enjoys playing her guitar poorly and listening to the Xanadu soundtrack. Blackout is her first book.

sarahhepola.com
twitter.com/sarahhepola