Off the Sauce

Lewis Meyer

A Pungent Witty Account of One mans Fight With Booze

paperback soft cover 1969 Double Day NY 166 pages

Author: This Book is my love song to Alcoholics Anonymous

I did not consider myself any great shakes as success
but whatever I have accomplished in life i owe to AA
My Greatest reward would come from someone's picking up this book for kicks and deciding that if AA has done all this for me it can do it for him or her!!

18 short chapters
Very Very Interesting Reading

"This book is my love song to Alcoholics Anonymous." Lewis Meyer From the jacket, "Humor - ..a knack for making readers laugh out loud. Inspiration ..compassion in this book, a love for one's fellow man, hope for everyone - drunk or sober .. Autobiography, ..an extremely frank memoir about a man's life on the sauce and off it."

"Sex...and the former alcoholic. A frank memoir from a man who for the past 23 years has been a member of Alcoholics Anonymous."

Publisher: N. Y.: Doubleday, 1967; Good Trade Paperback.

 Five of Meyers chapter headings include:
Sex and the Alcoholic
 60 - 40
Yesterday's Underwear
Call Me Cornball' and
They Want to Laugh

 He calls this book his lovesong to Alcoholics Anonymous. Over 166 pages he describes life as seen through a whisky bottle - including meetings, sex, cocktail parties, birthdays, and the like. Birthdays became his dry date anniversary.

Off the Sauce, his other best-seller, tells another side of Meyer in a tragic, but hilarious account which typifies Meyer's philosophy of life. "With the booze I had to either stop drinking or drink myself to death," he says of his bout with alcoholism. An avid member of Alcoholics Anonymous, Meyer says "For 34 years at AA I've sponsored literally hundreds of people. Sometimes in the bookstore they're shaking in all corners, you know. It's such a joy to help." Always, Meyer is an unfailing optimist. "I think everything is going to be all right. I live one day at a time."

Here is a list of books written by Lewis Meyer:

Second Wife (romantic novel)
The Customer is Always
Seeing Writing
Off the Sauce
Preposterous Papa
Mostly Mama
The Tipsy Witch and Other Fairy Tales
Pooped! The last word on Sex Manuals - A Penthouse magazine Book of the Month

Hard Back "Off The Sauce," by Lewis Meyer, copyright 1967, stated first edition.  This book raised many eyebrows in the 1960's because of its clear disregard for the Traditions, especially those pertaining to anonymity. It's a most interesting read.

Meyer was from Tulsa Okla here is a nice biography about him