Drinking with Men: A Memoir
by Schaap, Rosie
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 1594487111
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487118
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Derwood, Maryland, United States
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Synopsis
A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds drinking in bars. Rosie Schaap has always loved bars: the wood and brass and jukeboxes, the knowing bartenders, and especially the sometimes surprising but always comforting company of regulars. Starting with her misspent youth in the bar car of a regional railroad, where at fifteen she told commuters’ fortunes in exchange for beer, and continuing today as she slings cocktails at a neighborhood joint in Brooklyn, Schaap has learned her way around both sides of a bar and come to realize how powerful the fellowship among regular patrons can be. In Drinking with Men , Schaap shares her unending quest for the perfect local haunt, which takes her from a dive outside Los Angeles to a Dublin pub full of poets, and from small-town New England taverns to a character-filled bar in Manhattan’s TriBeCa. Drinking alongside artists and expats, ironworkers and soccer fanatics, she finds these places offer a safe haven, a respite, and a place to feel most like herself. In rich, colorful prose, Schaap brings to life these seedy, warm, and wonderful rooms. Drinking with Men is a love letter to the bars, pubs, and taverns that have been Schaap’s refuge, and a celebration of the uniquely civilizing source of community that is bar culture at its best.
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- 2Vbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0024716
- Title
- Drinking with Men: A Memoir
- Author
- Schaap, Rosie
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1594487111
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487118
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p. Audience: General/trade.
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