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Title: Drunkard's Progress: Narratives of Addiction, Despair, and Recovery by John W. Crowley ISBN: 0-8018-6008-3 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $58.00

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Summary: A unique collection of "drunk narratives" f
Comment: Crowley is not really the author of this book but the editor. _Drunkard's Progress_ is Crowley's collection of a genre of prose, the "confessions" of the alcoholic. Crowley's contextualizing essay does a nice job connecting the told-story, or the ritual of recounting alcoholic experiences with the first groups, like the Washington group, who employed this as a tactic toward achieving sobriety. Crowley also makes connections with the similar ritual within modern day recovery groups. As a contemporary literature scholar, I found Crowley's previous text, _The White Logic: Alcohol and Gender in Modernist Fiction_ to be more interesting, largely becuase it offers a literary interpretation and criticism of a variety of novels rather than being a collection of brief narratives like this book. However, for the reader and scholar interested in the foundation of the drunk-narrative-as-ritual-therapy model, Crowley's collection will be interesting reading.