*A Fan’s Notes* by Frederick Exley. A fictional memoir, it features self-sabotage, alcoholism, mental illness, failed attempts at reform. Sounds grim but has frequent funny passages. It has a sequel as well.
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Dry by Augusten Burroughs would work. He’s allergic to alcohol but also an alcoholic so he takes 20+ benadryl a day and lives in a hoarded apartment where all the surfaces are covered with empty bottles.
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By the end of the story, very much the song of achilles
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Pretty much anything by Bukowski.
*A Fan’s Notes* by Frederick Exley. A fictional memoir, it features self-sabotage, alcoholism, mental illness, failed attempts at reform. Sounds grim but has frequent funny passages. It has a sequel as well.
Dry by Augusten Burroughs would work. He’s allergic to alcohol but also an alcoholic so he takes 20+ benadryl a day and lives in a hoarded apartment where all the surfaces are covered with empty bottles.
By the end of the story, very much the song of achilles