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Title: Pour Me
Subtitle: A Life
Author: A. A. Gill
Narrator: Dougray Scott
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-27-17
Publisher: Orion
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
A. A. Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon - driven to dry out, not out of a desire to change but mainly through weariness. He tells the truth - as far as he can remember it - about drinking and about what it is like to be drunk.
Pour Me is about the blackouts, the collapse, the despair: 'Pockets were a constant source of surprise - a lamb chop, a votive candle, earrings, notes written on paper and ripped from books' and even, once, a pigeon. 'Morning pockets,' he says, 'were like tiny crime scenes.' He recalls the lost days, lost friends, failed marriages.... But there was also 'an optimum inebriation, a time when it was all golden, when the drink and the pleasure made sense and were brilliant'.
Sobriety regained, there are painterly descriptions of people and places, unforgettable musings about childhood and family, art and religion, friendships and fatherhood and, most movingly, the connections between his cooking, dyslexia and his missing brother.
Full of raw and unvarnished truths, exquisitely written throughout, Pour Me is about lost time and self-discovery. Lacerating, unflinching, uplifting, it is a classic about drunken abandon.
Read by Dougray Scott.
Members Reviews:
Blood and Wine
Engaging but uneven narrative, for what made AA Gill a great columnist restrains his longer prose, here and elsewhere. He is insightful and often sardonically amusing on a range of subjects, from his own alcoholism to education, but - as he admits - he can't quite rein himself in. The result is wildly uneven, yet there are deeply affecting, perceptive passages such as his account of his lost brother, Nick. Dougray Scott seems a slightly strange choice for narrator, with some bizarre pronunciations throughout, yet he keeps the pace brisk and lively. Gill's untimely death adds poignancy to the recording. An affecting, honest yet optimistic memoir, and not too long.
A Man of Letters reflects...
Wistful and poignant with great passages of warmth and humour amidst the sadness. His parents, his brother and the Tatler stand out. Also, the war reporting. The depiction of alcoholism is gut wrenching like watching a train wreck.
'Every long, hallowed word'
Michele deserves to be named and credited for this, and all of Adrian Gills writing. Gill is severely dyslexic, writes on screen and then dictates it all to her. If he leaves it on screen for more than a couple of weeks, he cant interpret it. This memoir isnt really a book as a consequence, its a kaleidoscopic torrent of engaging, witty, always engaging, disorderly, dictated experiences which may or not be true, anecdotes and musings. This makes it particularly successful on audio. Dougray Scotts spot-on narration rattles along at high speed, but he mangles many words and his attempt at French (louche, raconteur) is rubbish.
