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Gail Caldwell
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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship,
Hardcover, by Gail Caldwell
Release date August 10, 2010
Hardcover, amazon.com Hardcover, BookDepository.com Paperback, amazon.com Kindle, amazon.com "Caldwell, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former chief book critic for The Boston Globe, met [Caroline] Knapp, a columnist with the Boston Phoenix, in 1996.
"Both women gave up drinking at 33 (Knapp's memoir is titled 'Drinking: A Love Story'); both had to overcome physical challenges in their youth, polio for Caldwell and anorexia for Knapp; both adored dogs and loved the water. Caldwell swam and Knapp rowed, and each taught the other her sport.
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"In addition to honoring Knapp's friendship, Caldwell also discusses her own battle with alcoholism and spends a good bit of time talking about a subject dear to both friends' hearts: dog-training."
--- Brief article in Boston Globe of August 10, 2010 --- --- --- ---
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--from review by Yvonne Zipp in Christian Science Monitor of August 11, 2010
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