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THIRSTY MUSE PA

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This is a phenomenal study of the artistic spirit and alcoholism. Dardis takes our three greatest writers of the last century, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, and the greatest American playwrite, Eugene O'Neill, and studies the effect their alcoholism had on their work. It's a frightening tale for any writer battling addiction. It's a critical/biographical/sociological study of the best American letters had to offer at the turn of the last century. Read it.

Great book - you will learn a lot about addiction and how it destroys the lives of those who are victimized by it. excellent, excellent book! i read it in about 2 days. well worth your time

Insightful and engrossing book. As a fiction writer and enjoyer of alcoholic beverages, I am interested in the connection that alcohol has with the desire and need certain individuals such as myself feel with the desire to create with words, but also tend to give into the need to get drunk. Sometimes more often than others. A good book and higly recommended for my fellow writers out there.