acute alcoholism

Moshfegh’s novella takes the reader on a blackly comic trip through the vagaries of memory to portray a volatile male friendship shot through with aggression, acute alcoholism, and repressed eroticism – a relationship ultimately pushed into calamity by an imbalance of power.

“That was the direct cause of death. But this acute alcoholism was a definite contributing factor; probably the main cause of death, if you wish the truth.”

Her death, the F.B.I. review said, was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning, acute alcoholism and “other factors.”

Her death, the F.B.I. report said, had been caused by carbon monoxide poisoning, acute alcoholism “and other factors.”

Adele’s marriage was unhappy and resulted in the stillborn births of a daughter and twins, followed by a miscarriage, alongside the devastating progression of her husband’s acute alcoholism.