Caroline Knapp Książki

Alicja K. (inicjał zmieniony) leży w łóżku i skręca się z niepewności. Pan Okrutny jest naprawę okropny, ale... Pan Niebezpieczny jest naprawdę sexy, ale... Elliot M. jest naprawdę kochany, ale... Co robić? Dlaczego tego nie wie? Przecież przeczytała tony poradników. Dowiedziała się, jak odnieść sukces, jak zdobyć mężczyznę, jak być asertywną, jak zatrzymać mężczyznę, jak być szczupłą, jak się ubierać po odejściu mężczyzny... I co jej to dało? Oto ona: Miss Niepokoju, Nijakości i Lekkiej Nadwagi. Czego właściwie chce od życia? A może sama napisze poradnik dla tych, którym zawsze się nie udaje?

"It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out." So begins Drinking: A Love Story, journalist Caroline Knapp's brave and powerful memoir of her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic. Knapp writes that she loved liquor the way she loved bad men and, like all tragic love stories, hers is a tale of seduction and betrayal, a testament to the alluring but ultimately destructive powers of addiction. Fifteen million Americans a year are afflicted with the disease of alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Caroline Knapp, for example, started drinking at age fourteen. She drank through her years at an Ivy League college, through an award-winning career as a lifestyle editor and columnist. Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, attentive friend, sophisticated professional. Privately she was drinking herself into oblivion, trapped in love relationships that continued to undermine her self-esteem - until a series of personal crises forced her to confront and ultimately break free of the "liquid armor" she'd used to shield herself from the complicated battles of growing up. Caroline Knapp's ruthless self-examination, moral courage, and singular ability as a writer inform this remarkable memoir with many new insights about alcoholism, but more important, with many profound insights about life.

"Where are the lines between satisfaction and excess, between restraint and indulgence, between pleasure and self-destruction? And why are they so difficult to find, particularly for women?" (from Appetites)What do women want? Did Freud have any idea how difficult that question would become for women to answer? In Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts that question and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining, and controlling women and their desires?In this, her final book, completed shortly before her death last June, the best-selling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs turns her brilliant eye toward how a woman's appetite --for food, for love, for work, and for pleasure--is shaped and constrained by culture. She uses her early battle with anorexia as a powerful exploration of what can happen when we are divorced from our most basic hungers--and offers her own success as testament to the joy of saying "I want."Provocative, important, and deeply familiar, Appetites beautifully--and urgently--challenges all women to learn what it is to feed both the body and the soul.

Alice K. ist es leid, in Zeitschriften und Romanen ständig von erfolgreichen, gut aussehenden jungen Frauen zu lesen, die einfach alles und jeden haben können. Also beschließt sie, von ihrem eigenen, ziemlich unglamourösen Leben zu berichten: von der Frage, ob sie sich für Mr. Cruel, Mr. Dangerous oder den netten (faden?) Elliot entscheiden soll, von Schuh-Einkaufsorgien, daraus resultierenden Geldsorgen, ihrer falschen Freundin Ruth, ihrem chronisch leeren Kühlschrank und der Angst, mit Anfang dreißig schon ein Fashion-Victim zu sein. Das Anti-Superweib Alice K. hat eine wunderbar selbstironische und tragikomische Autobiografie geschrieben, in der sie u.a. erläutert, warum Frauen sich ohne große Handtaschen nackt fühlen und warum eine Laufmasche schrecklicher sein kann als der Gang zum Frauenarzt.