As close to an autobiography as Jack London ever wrote, John Barleycorn recounts the author\'s lifelong struggle with alcohol.
In this brutally honest memoir, which takes its title from the British folksong that personifies the source of whiskey and beer, London writes of alcohol as his friend and his enemy, an "august companion" and a "red-handed killer." In an age when alcoholism was viewed as a genetic weakness, London\'s frank, ahead-of-its-time treatment of his struggles tarnished his.
As close to an autobiography as Jack London ever wrote, John Barleycorn recounts the author\'s lifelong struggle with alcohol