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Author:	Robert Goolrick	Edition:	1
Publisher:	Algonquin Books	ISBN-10:	1565124812
Subject:	Biography & Autobiography	ISBN-13:	9781565124813
Topic:	--	Format:	Hardcover
Language:	English	Publication Year:	2007
Condition:	Brand New	Special Attributes:	--

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In this bleak, finely-wrought personal memoir, Robert Goolrick brings the readers into his personal hell, and with precision demonstrates how his seemingly glamorous parents betrayed his love, abused him physically and mentally, and doomed him to a loveless, self-hating life of confusion and mental instability. The execution of such writing is touchy--the author must walk a fine line between rant and reason--but Goolrick succeeds, and the results are nothing less than devastating.
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Length:	213 pages
Height:	8.5 in.
Width:	5.8 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	14.4 oz.

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A candid and deeply personal memoir of growing up in the seemingly idyllic world of a small Southern college town reflects on the devastating secrets behind the genteel façade and the effects of a family history of alcoholism on his life.
Industry reviews
"THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT is barbed and canny, with a sharp eye for the infliction of pain." (03/26/2007) "Peeling away the family's carefully constructed facade like the layers of an onion, this brave memoir tells of a childhood marred by alcoholism and an adulthood mired in loneliness, substance abuse and self-mutilation....Goolrick has written a moving, unflinchingly rendered story of how the past can haunt a life." (11/27/2006)

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1565124812 New Robert Goolrick Algonquin Books 2007-03-01 22.95

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It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemd possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but ""normal."" To all appearances, he and his family lived an almost idyllic life. The father was a respected professor, the mother a witty and elegant lady, someone everyone loved. They were parents to three bright, smiling children: two boys and a girl. They lived on


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