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Alice K's Guide to Lifeby Caroline KnappISBN 0704380528 (0-7043-8052-8)
Softcover, Quartet Books, Limited
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Alice K's Guide to Life: One Woman's Quest for Survival, Sanity, and the Perfect New Shoesby Caroline KnappISBN 0452271215 (0-452-27121-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Appetites: Why Women Wantby Caroline KnappISBN 1582432260 (1-58243-226-0)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'APPETITES: WHY WOMEN WANT'Book summary:The final and remarkable book of best-selling author Caroline Knapp underlines her gift of leveraging her life experiences into provocative lessons. On the surface, Appetites may appear to be about eating-complete with Knapp's unflinching account of her anorexia. In fact, Knapp is writing about how every woman can decipher her hunger and loneliness by connecting with her desire to experience pleasure. She illuminates the ways in which cultural taboos about women who desire create vulnerability to disorders of appetite including food and alcohol addictions, compulsive shopping and promiscuous sex. In this expansive view, "one womans tub of cottage cheese is another womans maxed-out Master Card." Readers will nod in recognition as the author seamlessly weaves autobiography and anthropology, describing her family of origin, profiling women of appetite and countering what she calls "the culture of No!" that curbs and disguises women's desires. Knapp gets to yes by urging readers to ask: "What gives me delight and fully engages me?" Knowing that 42-year-old Knapp died of lung cancer makes this question all the more poignant. Such questions suggest Knapps brave and generous legacy. --Barbara Mackoff [via]
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Bonds Between People and Their Dogs: Pack of 2by Caroline KnappISBN 1863591419 (1-86359-141-9)
Softcover, Random House Australia
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Drinking : A Love Storyby Caroline KnappISBN 0385315546 (0-385-31554-6)
Softcover, Delta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drinking: A Love Story'Book summary:The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored in this stylistic, literary memoir of drinking by a Massachusetts journalist. Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her well-to-do parents pushed her toward anexoria and then alcoholism. Fittingly, it was literature that saved her: She found inspiration in Pete Hamill's A Drinking Life and sobered up. Her tale is spiced with the characters she's known along the way. [via]
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The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essaysby Caroline KnappISBN 1582433143 (1-58243-314-3)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays'Book summary:From the best-selling author of Drinking: A Love Story, and Appetites: Why Women Want comes this unforgettable collection spanning fifteen years of observations on modern culture and women's lives. Caroline Knapp's readers are known not just for their number, but for their intense connection to her work. Knapp connected so well in part because of the intense focus she brought to her subjects. Now, with The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Knapp shows us that her vision through a wider lens is as brilliant as through a narrow one. These essays paint the fullest picture of this wonderful writer that we've yet seen, but they are also a full portrait of a writing life, showing how the same themes can engage--and expand--a writer over a lifetime. Knapp, who died in 2002, was considered one of the country's more intelligent and graceful voices in memoirs. This collection also shows her to be a witty, provocative observer of the world around her. [via]
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Pack of Two : The Intricate Bond Between Dogs and the People Who Love Themby Caroline KnappISBN 0385316984 (0-385-31698-4)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogsby Caroline KnappISBN 0385317018 (0-385-31701-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs'Book summary:At the age of 36, Caroline Knapp, author of the acclaimed bestseller Drinking:A Love Story, found herself confronted with a monumental task: redefining her world. She had faced the loss of both her parents, given up a twenty-year relationship with alcohol, and, as she writes, "I was wandering around in a haze of uncertainty, blinking up at the biggest questions: Who am I without parents and without alcohol? How to form attachments, and where to find comfort, in the face of such daunting vulnerability?" An answer materialized in the most unlikely form: that of a dog. Eighteen months to the day after she quit drinking, Knapp stumbled upon an eight-week-old puppy at a local animal shelter, took her home, and named her Lucille. Now two years old, Lucille has become a central force in Knapp's life: "In her," she writes, "I have found solace, joy, a bridge to the world."
Caroline Knapp has been celebrated as much for her fresh insight into emotional and psychological issues as she has been for her gifts as a writer. In Pack of Two, she brings the same perception and talent to bear on the rich, complicated terrain of human-animal relationships. In addition to mining her own experience with Lucille, Knapp speaks to a wide variety of dog people--from animal behaviorists and psychologists to other owners whose dogs have deeply affected their lives--about this emotionally complex, sometimes daunting, often profoundly healing alliance. Throughout, she explores the shift in canine roles from working partners to intimate companions and looks, too, at how this new kinship, this wordless bond, becomes a template for what we most desire ourselves.
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Shimon, Leah and Benjaminby Caroline Knapp , Chris FaircloughISBN 0713619570 (0-7136-1957-0)
Hardcover, A & C Black
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Alkoholby Caroline KnappISBN 3530422002 (3-530-42200-2)
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Hunger.by Caroline KnappISBN 3530421812 (3-530-42181-2)
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