Recommended reading - Days of Wine and Roses (1958 & 1963)

Days of Wine and Roses

By JP Miller.
 
Published by Dramatist's Play Service.
Teleplay first published 1958.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0822202816
ISBN-13: 9780822202813
 
Description:
 
In the fast-moving milieu of Madison Avenue, social drinking is almost an occupational necessity, and one that fast-rising young Joe Clay adopts with too ready ease. Unfortunately, the girl he meets and marries shares his proclivity, and while they continue to tell themselves that they drink because they choose to, it is soon apparent that their habit has become a serious problem. But their failure to acknowledge this plunges them headlong into the shattering events of the play a career in shambles, a marriage destroyed, the esteem of friends and family lost, and a child who has become the innocent victim of their obsession. In the poignant ending of the play a spectre of hope arises but, more important, so does a galvanizing awareness of the depth of their torment, and of the lesson which their compulsive self-destruction must have for others.
 

Days of Wine and Roses

By David Westheimer.
 
Mass Market Paperback.
ISBN: B0000CLO9H
Published 1963.
Published by Bantam Books.
 
Description:
 
A story of Brandy Alexander and the insidious way alcohol can destroy a life. Based on JP Miller's play and includes three still pictures on back cover from the movie of the same name.