Penguin (Non-Classics), January 2006. Trade Paperback. Fair - Cash. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed with some creasing. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Secure pages, solid binding. Unmarked pages. Soiling to front cover Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

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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.

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Bookseller: The Book Garden (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 736846
Title: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
Author: Koren Zailckas
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Fair - Cash
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0143036475
ISBN 13: 9780143036470
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Place of Publication: E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.
Date Published: January 2006
Pages: 368

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