"In all honesty, I wouldn't praise this as I do if I did not think it was a great piece of writing. There's humour, often dark, characters I cared for, others that made me squirm, and there's wisdom and compassion and the whole thing digs down to what it means to be human and tolerant."
--- Simon Scarrow, author of 'Under The Eagle'

"I love Steve Hussy's writing: like a punch square into the reader's gut. While this appears on the surface as a memoir, it is much more. Hussy's character (Steve) is memorable because he is intelligent and sensitive, trying to find meaning in a world where people have abdicated their soul for instant gratification. Furthermore, he is, at heart, a romantic, loving and caring for the three women who barely deserve his affection and attention.
"Hussy has drawn some complex characters who, despite their faults, are ones we come to care deeply about. To top it off, he has also captured the Zeitgeist of his time, providing insight into the world of young, lost adults who live at the edge of a constant, undefined despair. This is a book that is heart-wrenching at its core, and the writing is so good it draws you fully into their often wild, chaotic world through the narrator's empathy, compassion, and lack of judgment. This novel reads as a love letter to the narrator's turbulent past.
"['Alcoholic'] will alter you and make you think about your own life. A real treat!"
--- Suzanne, Amazon

"My favorite character, undoubtedly, is Steve. He is intelligent, witty, compassionate, and even somewhat tragic in his "love" for the three women (in variation). As for [Ally's] father, he, despite his "faults," is a brilliantly rendered character: funny, amusing, soulful even. He loves his daughter, respects Steve, and often mocks his own dependencies.
"Steve is painted as a complex character. Why, the reader wonders, is he an alcoholic? It is not the same as in Bukowski's case where his drinking is a badge of honor. (Nor Dan Fante, who renders his addiction as tragic.) For Steve, I saw it as more of desperation, trying to figure out how to deal with the futility of life. That is ultimately what makes him a real character: for me he had more soul than all of the women combined, and it is not just because of the tragedy of his family circumstances (his father's death and his mother's illness).
"I enjoyed 'Alcoholic' tremendously and was drawn into the story totally after the first twenty pages. [It is] so much more than a tragic love story, it captures the angst of a generation of people growing up in a valueless society with no direction."
--- Zsolt Alapi, Siren Song

"'Alcoholic' is a voyeuristic expose of mangled characters living out their bare-boned existence in a squalid shadow play of their own making."
--- u.v.ray, author of 'Black Cradle'

"The best thing about Hussy is that his writing is so simple. there is no fluff and nothing is wasted. He also has spot on insights into the current s-storm of things. Well worth picking up."
--- Paul Grant, Amazon