The Alcoholic's Daughter

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Abuse & frustration: the things we do for love. The Alcoholics Daughter is the story of a mans quandary living with a celebrated woman who in the privacy of their life manifests dozens of personality disorders brought on by growing up with a hard drinking, abusive father. The well known woman appears normal to everyone, except her husband who endures all manner of abuse and frustrations due to her plethora of hidden phobias and neuroses. It is a tale of an alcoholics legacy but also what price someone is willing to pay for love and how he finds himself in jail once he decides to leave her. "She asked him to write her a love song with the word darling in it. No one has ever called me darling, she said. So he did. He called it Forever. ~from The Alcoholics Daughter"

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A compelling debut ... A terrific read, a story that flows seamlessly, with believable characters and familiar scenes of the Plateau neighbourhood. It will have you thinking about your own relationship, and how you deal with the inevitable roadblocks to the harmony we all seek.

David Sherman has a unique ability among Canadian writers of being able to maintain the edge of reality while he transforms it into entertaining, gut-wrenching thought-provoking fiction.

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Journalist, award-winning filmmaker, musician, playwright, and author, David Sherman served as playwright in residence at Infinitheatre in Montreal, where he had two hit plays, Joe Louis: An American Romance and The Daily Miracle. His first play Have a Heart was produced at the Centaur Theatre. The Alcoholics Daughter is his first novel.