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Title
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Waking Up.
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Creator
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Parker, Pamela Cox., Florida Atlantic University, Schwartz, Jason
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Abstract/Description
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Waking Up is an addiction novel that traces the decline of twentysomething Rabbit Reynolds. Rabbit has found a strategy for coping with her intense loneliness---anesthetic alcoholism. The novel is about her desperate need for approval, validation, and external measures of self-worth, and the ways in which that need manifests itself in substance abuse, self-mutilation, and hollow relationships. Waking Up opens with Rabbit's lowest point, then goes back in time to follow her descent and,...
Show moreWaking Up is an addiction novel that traces the decline of twentysomething Rabbit Reynolds. Rabbit has found a strategy for coping with her intense loneliness---anesthetic alcoholism. The novel is about her desperate need for approval, validation, and external measures of self-worth, and the ways in which that need manifests itself in substance abuse, self-mutilation, and hollow relationships. Waking Up opens with Rabbit's lowest point, then goes back in time to follow her descent and, finally, her first steps toward recovery.
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Date Issued
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2003
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13091
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Subject Headings
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Alcoholism in literature, Self-esteem in literature, Loneliness in literature
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Format
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Document (PDF)
