Cover of The drinker

Book 2009

The drinker

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Publisher
Melville House
Language
English
Published
2009
  • Alcoholics
  • Fiction
  • Fiction, psychological
  • Married people, fiction

An autobiographical novel written during the Second World War in Germany in 1944 during the author's confinement in a medical asylum. It is a self-portrait of an alcoholic and the effect of his behaviour on his surroundings, especially on his deteriorating marriage.