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Review title: Is it the alcohol... or Cheever?
Product review: I raced through this book, believing I would arrive at the place where Cheever would see herself clearly, judge herself more acutely, and change her life. Ten pages before the end, she "finds God"--which seems to mean something rather amorphous and unchallenging. It's not clear, because, though Cheever has given us all the details of her lousy relationships, she refuses to say much about why she stopped drinking. When the writing isn't too New-Yorker-precious, it's good; you are immersed in a culture of drink. But I concluded that it was not alcohol causing her problems, but Cheever's self-absorbed personality. And her judgment hasn't improved: she says she was married to three "extraordinary" men, but the two who fathered her children don't seem like great husbands or fathers. An odd book, unsatisfying and full of name-dropping.
