Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood Paperback - 2006
by Koren Zailckas
From earliest experimentation to full-blown abuse, 24-year-old Zailckas leads readers through her experience of binge drinking in this vivid, cautionary tale.
Summary
Garnering a vast amount of attention from young people and parents, and from book buyers across the country, Smashed became a media sensation and a New York Times bestseller. Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas’s story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics—yet—but who routinely use booze as a shortcut to courage and a stand-in for good judgment.
With one stiff sip of Southern Comfort at the age of fourteen, Zailckas is initiated into the world of drinking. From then on, she will drink faithfully, fanatically. In high school, her experimentation will lead to a stomach pumping. In college, her excess will give way to a pattern of self-poisoning that will grow more destructive each year. At age twenty-two, Zailckas will wake up in an unfamiliar apartment in New York City, elbow her friend who is passed out next to her, and ask, "Where are we?" Smashed is a sober look at how she got there and, after years of blackouts and smashups, what it took for her to realize she had to stop drinking. Smashed is an astonishing literary debut destined to become a classic.
First line
To THIS DAY, I can't remember when I had my first kiss.
Details
- Title Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
- Author Koren Zailckas
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Soft Cover
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date January 31, 2006
- ISBN 9780143036470 / 0143036475
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.28 x 0.65 in (19.56 x 13.41 x 1.65 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Women - Alcohol use - United States, Zailckas, Koren
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
"Poised and elegiac... Smashed goes down with a slow, genteel burn." -The New York Times Book Review
"A mortifyingly credible story." -The New York Times
"Brilliant and horrifying." -The Baltimore Sun
Citations
- New York Times, 03/19/2006, Page 28
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