My Dad's Definitely Not a Drunk [Paperback]

Elisa Lynn Carbone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1992

Twelve-year-old Corey, wishing for a normal family life, struggles with the fact that her father drinks too much and has trouble holding a job.

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Review

To feel that you'll never be "normal," always be different from the other kids. To fear that your friends will discover your father is an alcoholic. To take on adult responsibilities since your father is always drunk or hung-over. To confront and accept your own emotions, and then confront your father. Elisa Lynn Carbone captures well the pain and confusion a young teen faces when a parent is addicted to alcohol. The typical dynamics of adolescents we're all familiar with - boy/girl crushes and lunchroom cliques - are turned on their head when experienced through the eyes of Corey, a 12-year-old girl with an alcoholic father. A constant force of tension threads through the book, particularly the lighter moments - Dad and Corey at a baseball game, for example or the reader feeling Cory's relentless fear that her father could slip into drinking any second. A riveting, believable ending for any-aged reader rises higher than the entire book and avoids the fairy-tale finish. The story moves smoothly when Carbone focuses on the characters but bumps occasionally when it slips into a how-to tone for coping teens. For all the alienated young people imprisoned by Corey's situation, this book might be their best friend and give them the courage to seek help, or at least begin communicating. -- From Independent Publisher --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Waterfront Books (October 1992)
• ISBN-10: 0914525220
• ISBN-13: 978-0914525226
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,885,974 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This book was a decent book and a interting topic, October 14, 1999

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This review is from: My Dad's Definitely Not a Drunk! (Hardcover)

The story is about a girl, Corey who is ashamed off here fathers drinking and wants him to stop, because she wants to normal like Victor's famliy who is the boy she likes. Corey and her mother talked to a counciler and found a very uqnie way to stp his drinking. The book was a decent and could help somone who had a family member that drank alot. It had a good story line I thought, and thats why I gave it 3 stars.