Pour Me: A Life

Adrian Gill

Pour Me: A Life
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Country
United Kingdom
Published
29 November 2016
Pages
256
ISBN
9781780226439

Pour Me: A Life

Adrian Gill

‘A. A. Gill, the man who makes a living getting beneath the skin of things, whether it’s television, restaurants or places round the world - has skinned himself’ Vanity Fair

A. A. Gill’s memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon. He tells the truth - as far as he can remember it - about drinking and about what it is like to be drunk. He recalls the lost days, lost friends, failed marriages … But there was also an ‘optimum inebriation, a time when it was all golden’.

Sobriety regained, there are painterly descriptions of people and places, unforgettable musings about childhood and family, art and religion; and most, movingly, the connections between his cooking, dyslexia and his missing brother.

Full of raw and unvarnished truths, exquisitely written throughout, POUR ME is about lost time and self-discovery. Lacerating, unflinching, uplifting, it is a classic about drunken abandon.

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