Fifty years sober : an alcoholic's journey / Ross Fitzgerald
- Bib ID:
- 10005873
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Fitzgerald, Ross, 1944-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Edition:
- [Second edition]
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- [Place of publication not identified] : HYBRID Publishers, 2020
- Melbourne, Victoria : Hybrid Publishers, 2020
- ©2020
- 1 online resource.
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 3.1MB
- ISBN:
- 9781925736359
- Summary:
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To celebrate 40 years of sobriety, Ross Fitzgerald published My Name Is Ross (2010) - the story of his battle with alcoholism. Although he has now succeeded in not drinking alcohol or using drugs for 50 years, in this revised and updated edition the author still calls himself an alcoholic, and pays extended tribute to the role of Alcoholics Anonymous in keeping him on the wagon. Ross Fitzgerald has been a successful academic, writer, reviewer, and commentator in the media.
- Full contents:
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1. Life, death, insanity
- 2. Suicide and murder
- 3. Shock
- 4. Damaged and desperate: slowly the poison
- 5. Sydney town
- 6. 'Adequacy, not perfection'
- 7. Silver trays
- 8. Raffles, spies and Brissy
- 9. Genesis and birth: opposition and repression
- 10. Spiritual experience and anarchism in practice
- 11. Bears and Lions and Peter Beattie
- 12. Father as hero
- 13. Waste, regret, and into action
- 14. The AA professor
- 15. The switch.
- 16. Under the influence
- 17. A power greater than myself
- 18. Do not be discouraged
- Epilogue
- The Serenity Prayer
- How to contact AA
- Notes
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
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- "An earlier version of this book was published as My Name is Ross: An alcoholic's journey, by NewSouth, 2010. Fifty Years Sober is a new updated edition."
- "One drink is too many and a hundred is not enough."--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- Fitzgerald, Ross, 1944-
- Addicts -- Anecdotes
- Alcoholics -- Australia -- Biography
- Alcoholism -- Australia -- Biography
- Authors, Australian -- Biography
- Historians -- Australia -- Biography
- Recovering alcoholics -- Biography
- Recovering alcoholics -- Australia -- Biography
- Alcoholism
- Alcohol
- alcoholism
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Biography: general
- Personal Memoirs
- Recovering alcoholics
- SELF-HELP
- Substance Abuse & Addictions
- Genre/Form:
- Also Titled:
- 50 years sober
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2020
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