- Published: 1 March 2006
- ISBN: 9780091905606
- Imprint: Ebury Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $32.99
Smashed
Growing Up A Drunk Girl
- Published: 1 March 2006
- ISBN: 9780091905606
- Imprint: Ebury Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $32.99
'Koren Zailckas chronicles, in detail both grim and marvelous, the hair-raising drunkalogue that so many college kids go through without becoming full-fledged drunks. But the wit and insight rampant in the prose of Smashed raises the book far above the issue of young drinking. Zailckas has captured what's unfortunately become a quintessential American girlhood.'
Mary Karr, author of The Liar’s Club
One of the most original and brutally honest memoirs I've read in a long while. Koren is a writer's writer - and she wipes the floor with any of her contemporaries. Smashed is definitely my find of the year
Helen Walsh, author of, Brass
Well and fiercely written
Hilery Mantel, The Sunday Telegraph
'Within a year, alcohol had become Koren's prop and the means by which she overcame her shyness. Within two years, her reckless binges landed her in hospital...'
You Magazine
Beautifully written, oddly affecting...
India Knight, The Sunday Times
It is a testament to Zailckas's hard, fast, clever writing that Smashed grips from beginning to end
The Guardian
An original and moving book that perhaps starts to explain why we seem to have a generation of bing-drinking teenage girls
The Observer