# Pour Me

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- Book: [Pour Me](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-a-gill/pour-me) ([Pour Me.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-a-gill/pour-me.md))
- Authors: [A. A. Gill](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-a-gill)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-9787-083-8
- Published: 2015-11-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.