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After Nirvana: A Novelby Lee WilliamsISBN 0688166415 (0-688-16641-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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And I Don't Want to Live This Lifeby Deborah SpungenISBN 0449911411 (0-449-91141-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And I Don't Want to Live This Life'Book summary:For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a tragedy. Here is the incredible story of an infant who never stopped screaming, a toddler who attacked people, a teenager addicted to drugs, violence, and easy sex, a daughter completely out of control--who almost destroyed her parents' marriage and the happiness of the rest of her family.
"Honest and moving...Her painful tale is engrossing."
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The Basketball Diariesby Jim CarrollISBN 0140100180 (0-14-010018-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Basketball Diaries Ages 12-15by Jim CarrollISBN 0553248952 (0-553-24895-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Birth of Heroin and the Demonization of the Dope Fiendby th MetzgerISBN 1559501774 (1-55950-177-4)
Softcover, Breakout Productions Inc
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Candyby Luke DaviesISBN 0345423879 (0-345-42387-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candy'Book summary:"Candy is beside me, drenched in sweat. She's breathing gently, long slow breaths. I imagine her soul going in and out: wanting to leave, wanting to come back, wanting to leave, wanting to come back. The day will soon harden into what we need to do. But for now we have each other. . . ."
He met Candy amid a lush Sydney summer. Gorgeous, sexy, free-spirited Candy. They fell in love fast, lots of laughter and lust, the days melting warmly into each other. He never planned to give her a habit. But she wanted a taste. And wasn't love, after all, about sharing lives? Candy had a bit of money and in the beginning, everything was beautiful. Heady, heroin-hazed days, the world open and inviting. But when the money ran out, the craving remained, and the days ceased their luxurious stretch.
But there was still love. Only now, it was a threesome. Heroin had its own demands, its own timetable, and thoughts of nabbing the next fix hurled them into each day. Then, when desperation sets in, Candy will stop at nothing to secure a blast, as she and her lover become hostage to the nightmarish world of addiction.
Painful, sexy, tender, and charged with dark humor, Candy provocatively charts the daily rituals of two lovers maintaining a long-term junk habit. Told in stunningly vivid prose and set against the backdrop of suburban and urban Australia, Candy is both an electrifying and frightening glimpse of contemporary life and love. [via]More editions of Candy:
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Carlito's Way, And: After Hoursby Edwin TorresISBN 1853754900 (1-85375-490-0)
Softcover, Prion
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carlito's Way, And: After Hours'Book summary:This is the story of the irrepressible Carlo Brigante, Puerto Rican hustler, drug dealer, survivor and great talker. He evokes his doomed world of New York's Spanish Harlem - a streetwise life in the fast lane, with no exit, both brutal and hilarious. At first full of confidence in his ability to ride the tiger of New York's gangland unscathed, his first serious descent in to the world of crime leads to his eventual imprisonment. The sequel After Hours, a longer and darker tale, shows Carlito, older and wiser, trying to get out of his dangerous life of crime. Needing money, he opens an after-hours nightclub while he works on a last move to fund his retirement. But the lawyer who sprang Carlito from prison, turns out to be up to his neck in it with the mafia and wants to call in a favour. And, as Carlito says, "a failure can kill faster than a bullet." This is fast moving American crime writing at its very best that lifts the Iid on Spanish Harlem as no other book does. Edwin Torres was born and raised in the district and as he says "a lot of the friends I grew up with are in jail now. I put some of them there." For Torres is now a criminal court judge in New York City. [via]
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The Case of the Frozen Addictsby J. William Langston, Jon PalfremanISBN 0679747087 (0-679-74708-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Case of the Frozen Addicts'Book summary:In this riveting book, neurosurgeon J. William Langston and writer Jon Palfreman recount the bizarre and far-reaching mystery of six patients who arrived at San Francisco area emergency rooms after using a synthetic analogue of heroin. Fully conscious but unable to move or speak, they were soon diagnosed by Langston as having advanced Parkinson's disease. This spellbinding book offers a stunning report on these baffling cases. of photos.
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Cocaine And Heroin Abuse Researchby Lidia A. PizzoliISBN 1600210767 (1-60021-076-7)
Hardcover, Nova Science Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cocaine And Heroin Abuse Research'Book summary:Addiction does begin with drug abuse when an individual makes a conscious choice to use drugs, but addiction is not just "a lot of drug use". Recent scientific research provides overwhelming evidence that not only do drugs interfere with normal brain functioning creating powerful feelings of pleasure, but they also have long-term effects on brain metabolism and activity. At some point, changes occur in the brain that can turn drug abuse into addiction, a chronic, relapsing illness. Those addicted to drugs suffer from a compulsive drug craving and usage and cannot quit by themselves. Treatment is necessary to end this compulsive behaviour. This book includes within its scope leading-edge research on cocaine and heroin abuse. [via]
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Heroin Maintenance Treatmentby Thomas Steffen, Felix GutzwillerISBN 3805568746 (3-8055-6874-6)
Hardcover, S Karger Pub
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The Drawing of the Threeby Stephen KingISBN 1880418398 (1-880418-39-8)
Hardcover, Donald m Grant Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drawing of the Three'Book summary:After his confrontation with the man in black at the end of The Gunslinger, Roland awakes to find three doors on the beach of Mid-World's Western Seaeach leading to New York City but at three different moments in time. Through these doors, Roland must "draw" three figures crucial to his quest for the Dark Tower. In 1987, he finds Eddie Dean, The Prisoner, a heroin addict. In 1964, he meets Odetta Holmes, the Lady of Shadows, a young African-American heiress who lost her lower legs in a subway accident and gained a second personality that rages within her. And in 1977, he encounters Jack mort, Death, a pusher responsible for cruelties beyond imagining. Has Roland found new companions to form the ka-tet of his quest? Or has he unleashed something else entirely?[via]More editions of The Drawing of the Three:
- The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 0451210859 (0-451-21085-9)
Softcover, Signet - The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 0452284708 (0-452-28470-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 0670032557 (0-670-03255-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - The Drawing of the 3: ISBN 0451163524 (0-451-16352-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 0452262143 (0-452-26214-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 0452279615 (0-452-27961-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 0937986917 (0-937986-91-7)
Softcover, Donald m Grant Pub Inc - The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 0785701370 (0-7857-0137-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 0937986909 (0-937986-90-9)
Hardcover, Donald M. Grant - The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 1880418398 (1-880418-39-8)
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- The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 0451210859 (0-451-21085-9)
Farmby Clarence CooperISBN 0393317854 (0-393-31785-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Glueby Irvine WelshISBN 0393322157 (0-393-32215-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Go Nowby Richard HellISBN 0684832771 (0-684-83277-1)
Softcover, Scribner
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Going to Meet the Manby James BaldwinISBN 0679761799 (0-679-76179-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going to Meet the Man'Book summary:"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob.
By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying--and informed throughout by Baldwin's uncanny knowledge of the wounds racism has left in both its victims and its perpetrators--Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers. [via] -
Heavier than Heaven: Kurt Cobain, La Biografia/ Kurt Cobain, The Biographyby Charles R. CrossISBN 0786884029 (0-7868-8402-9)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heavier than Heaven: Kurt Cobain, La Biografia/ Kurt Cobain, The Biography'Book summary:The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure as T.S. Eliot's. Now Charles Cross has cracked the code in the definitive biography Heavier Than Heaven, an all-access pass to Cobain's heart and mind. It reveals many secrets, thanks to 400-plus interviews, and even quotes Cobain's diaries and suicide notes and reveals an unreleased Nirvana masterpiece. At last we know how he created, how lies helped him die, how his family and love life entwined his art--plus, what the heck "Smells Like Teen Spirit" really means. (It was graffiti by Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna after a double date with Dave Grohl, Cobain, and the "over-bored and self-assured" Tobi Vail, who wore Teen Spirit perfume; Hanna wrote it to taunt the emotionally clingy Cobain for wearing Vail's scent after sex--a violation of the no-strings-attached dating ethos of the Olympia, Washington, "outcast teen" underground. Cobain's stomach-churning passion for Vail erupted in six or so hit tunes like "Aneurysm" and "Drain You.")
Cross uncovers plenty of news, mostly grim and gripping. As a teen, Cobain said he had "suicide genes," and his clan was peculiarly defiant: one of his suicidal relatives stabbed his own belly in front of his family, then ripped apart the wound in the hospital. Cobain was contradictory: a sweet, popular teen athlete and sinister berserker, a kid who rescued injured pigeons and laughingly killed a cat, a talented yet astoundingly morbid visual artist. He grew up to be a millionaire who slept in cars (and stole one), a fiercely loyal man who ruthlessly screwed his oldest, best friends. In fact, his essence was contradictions barely contained. Cross, the coauthor of Nevermind: Nirvana, the definitive book about the making of the classic album, puts numerous Cobain-generated myths to rest. (Cobain never lived under a bridge--that Aberdeen bridge immortalized in the 12th song on Nevermind was a tidal slough, so nobody could sleep under it.) He gives the fullest account yet of what it was like to be, or love, Kurt Cobain. Heavier Than Heaven outshines the also indispensable Come As You Are. It's the deepest book about pop's darkest falling star. --Tim Appelo [via]
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwichby Alice ChildressISBN 1557361126 (1-55736-112-6)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich'Book summary:Dope. Smack. Junk. Heroin. No matter what you call it, you can't change the fact that 13-year-old Benjie is on it. Oh no ... he's not hooked, though. He could stop anytime ... really. But why is a young kid like Benjie using at all? Originally published in 1973, Alice Childress's novel remains one of the most profound explorations of an addict's world ever written. What makes this novel different is that Childress points no fingers and offers no easy answers. Her characters' moods and motivations are complex, fresh, unexpected, and courageously real. Woven into Benjie's own ramblings about his situation are the thoughts of those involved by association--his mother, stepfather, friends, the pusher, and teachers at his school. This narrative technique creates a rich, heroic portrait of the social and psychological circumstances of addiction, love, and family. [via]
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- A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: ISBN 0698118545 (0-698-11854-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: ISBN 0380001322 (0-380-00132-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: ISBN 0698202783 (0-698-20278-3)
Hardcover, Coward Mc Cann - A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: ISBN 0698305302 (0-698-30530-2)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan - A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: ISBN 1557361126 (1-55736-112-6)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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The Heroin User's Handbookby Francis MoraesISBN 1559502169 (1-55950-216-9)
Softcover, Loompanics Unltd
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Heroinby Mark PownallISBN 0811432084 (0-8114-3208-4)
Softcover, Steck-Vaughn Co
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Heroin Centuryby Ian Smith, Tom CarnwathISBN 0415278996 (0-415-27899-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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Heroin in the Age of Crack-Cocaineby James A. Inciardi, Lana D. HarrisonISBN 0761904247 (0-7619-0424-7)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heroin in the Age of Crack-Cocaine'Book summary:This book presents an historical overview of heroin use in the USA, as well as articles by experts in the field which focus on current developments and emerging trends in prevention, treatment, distribution and consumption. Filling a void in the literature on what is known about the `new' heroin users, this volume also updates the reader on the status of ageing heroin-addicted populations who initiated use of the drug prior to the `age of cocaine'. [via]
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The Heroin Trailby Nigel HawkesISBN 0531170284 (0-531-17028-4)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Zby Ann MarloweISBN 0385720165 (0-385-72016-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Ibogaine Story : Report on the Staten Island Projectby Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal, Project MembersISBN 1570270295 (1-57027-029-5)
Softcover, Autonomedia
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In My Skin: A Memoirby Kate HoldenISBN 1559708301 (1-55970-830-1)
Hardcover, Arcade Pub
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In the Arms of Morpheus: The Tragic History of Laudanum, Morphine, And Patent Medicinesby Barbara HodgsonISBN 1552975401 (1-55297-540-1)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Arms of Morpheus: The Tragic History of Laudanum, Morphine, and Patent Medicines'Book summary:The follow-up to the widely praised Opium, In The Arms of Morpheus is the shocking story of how a simple but bewitching substance, touted as a miracle drug, enslaved unwitting generations of 19th century writers, artists and ordinary citizens. Extracted from opium, the sap of the poppy, this popular drug was welcomed into the homes of rich and poor alike, in the guise of medicinal uses in the form of laudanum and opium elixirs, and as pure, undisguised morphine.
Laudanum contained opium, saffron, cinnamon and alcohol. In the spirit of 19th century progress, other opium concoctions were created and a whole industry in quackery erupted. In both Britain and North America, opium was mixed with everything imaginable: mercury, hashish, cayenne pepper, ether, chloroform, belladonna and whisky, sherry, wine and brandy.
In the Arms of Morpheus examines how the drinking of laudanum for medical reasons developed and how it became an everyday safeguard against pain, poverty, and boredom. Opium eating was catapulted into fame by the confessions of Thomas De Quincy and insinuated itself into the lives and works of writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Lord Byron, Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, the Brontës, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and many others.
Thoroughly researched and copiously illustrated with photographs, engravings, advertisements, movie stills, pulp magazine and dime novel covers and paraphernalia, In the Arms of Morpheus continues the history of opium's emergence as an omnipresent and sometimes devastating influence.
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In the Arms of Morpheus: The Tragic History of Morphine, Laudanum and Patent Medicinesby Barbara HodgsonISBN 155297538X (1-55297-538-X)
Hardcover, Firefly Books, Limited
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Jesus' Son: Storiesby Denis JohnsonISBN 0060975776 (0-06-097577-6)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jesus' Son: Stories'Book summary:The unnamed narrator in Jesus' Son lives through a car wreck and a heroin overdose. Is he blessed? He cheats, lies, steals--but possesses a child's (or a mystic's) uncanny way of expressing the bare essence of things around him. In its own strange and luminous way, this linked collection of short fiction does the same. The stories follow characters who are seemingly marginalized beyond hope, drifting through a narcotic haze of ennui, failed relationships, and petty crime. In "Dundun" the narrator decides to take a shooting victim to the hospital, though not for the usual reasons: "I wanted to be the one who saw it through and got McInnes to the doctor without a wreck. People would talk about it, and I hoped I would be liked." Later he takes his own pathetic stab at violence in "The Other Man," attempting to avenge a drug rip-off but succeeding only at terrorizing an innocent family. Each meandering story--some utterly lacking in the usual elements of plot, including a beginning and an end--nonetheless demands compulsive reading, with Denis Johnson's first calling as a poet apparent in the off-kilter beauty of his prose. Open to any page and gems spill forth: "I knew every raindrop by its name. I sensed everything before it happened. I knew a certain Oldsmobile would stop for me even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside that we'd have an accident in the storm."
The most successful stories in the collection offer moments of startling clarity. In "Car Crash While Hitchhiking," for instance, the narrator feels most alive while in the presence of another's loss: "Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead.... What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere." In "Work," while "salvaging" copper wire from a flooded house to fund their habits, the narrator and an acquaintance stop to watch the nearly unfathomable sight of a beautiful, naked woman paragliding up the river. Later the narrator learns that the house once belonged to his down-and-out accomplice and that the woman is his estranged wife. "As nearly as I could tell, I'd wandered into some sort of dream that Wayne was having about his wife, and his house," he reasons. Such is the experience for the reader. More Genet than Bukowski, Denis Johnson lures us into a misfit soul's dream from which he can't awake. --Langdon Cook [via]
Junkie Loveby Phil Shoenfelt, Jolana IzbickaISBN 8086264173 (80-86264-17-3)
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Junkyby William S. Burroughs, Allen GinsbergISBN 0140043519 (0-14-004351-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Junky'Book summary:[via]Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly re-created the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts. Here for the first time are Burroughs's own unpublished Introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages and auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others. Harris's comprehensive Introduction reveals the composition history of Junk's text and places its contents against a lively historical background.
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughsby William S. Burroughs, James GrauerholzISBN 0802137784 (0-8021-3778-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs'Book summary:Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, the author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Last Words is a complex portrait of Burroughs at the end of his life, coming to terms with aging and death. While laid out as simple diary entries of the last nine months of his life, Last Words spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction. Classic Burroughs concerns - his rants on U.S. drug policy, his contempt for the state of the human race, his love for his cats - permeate the book. Burroughs breaks into classic "routines" and provides frequent commentary on whatever he is reading - from high literature to low-brow thrillers. Whether occupied with the banalities of life (housekeeping, dealing with doctors) or the glories (shooting a video with U2, opening a museum show of his paintings), the "Old Man" emerges as frequently comical, sometimes meditative, and always engaged-a commentator on the state of the world and the self. Most significantly, Last Words contains some of the most brutally personal prose Burroughs has ever written. His reflections on the deaths of his friends Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary provide a window onto the preparations Burroughs was making for his own death - a quest for absolution marked by a profound sense of guilt and loss. Last Words is unlike anything else in the oeuvre of William S. Burroughs. It is the purest, most personal work ever presented by this writer, and a poignant portrait of the man, his life, and his creative process-one that never quit, even in the shadow of death. [via]
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The Man With the Golden Armby Nelson AlgrenISBN 1583220089 (1-58322-008-9)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man With the Golden Arm'Book summary:The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren's most powerful and enduring work. On the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949, for which Algren was honored with the first National Book Award (which he received from none other than Eleanor Roosevelt at a ceremony in March 1950), Seven Stories is proud to release the first critical edition of an Algren work.
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.
The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual," while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope.
Special contributions by Russell Banks, Bettina Drew, James R. Giles, Carlo Rotella, William Savage, Lee Stringer, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, and others. [via]More editions of The Man With the Golden Arm:
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Hardcover, Seven Stories Press - The Man With the Golden Arm: ISBN 0140045236 (0-14-004523-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Man With the Golden Arm: ISBN 0941423387 (0-941423-38-7)
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Manchild in the Promised Landby Claude BrownISBN 0684864185 (0-684-86418-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manchild in the Promised Land'Book summary:During his first year at Howard University, Claude Brown wrote an article for the magazine Dissent about growing up in Harlem. The piece attracted the attention of a publisher, who encouraged him to write his autobiography. The result, Manchild in the Promised Land, traces Claude Brown's own transformation from a hardened, streetwise young criminal to a successful, self-made man.
This autobiographical novel, in print for more than thirty years, has been widely praised for its portrayal of the "lost" generation of African-Americans whose parents left the sharecropping lifestyle of the South for the crowded inner cities of the North. [via]
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Miles: The Autobiographyby Miles DavisISBN 0671725823 (0-671-72582-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miles: The Autobiography'Book summary:Here is the outspoken autobiography of a musical legend, one of the most compelling and important cultural figures of our time, describing Davis's mysterious five-year layoff and his triumphant return to music. 32 pages of black-and-white photos. [via]
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My War Gone By, I Miss It Soby Anthony LoydISBN 0871137690 (0-87113-769-0)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My War Gone By, I Miss It So'Book summary:My War Gone By, I Miss It So is a fiercely compelling and beautifully written personal account of the Bosnian war. The book alternates between Anthony Loyd's experiences in Bosnia and personal reflections of his time in the British army, his parents' divorce, his estrangement from his father, and his heroin addiction. Loyd describes the war at eye level: detailing the way bodies look after they've been shot or blown up, looking through the sights of a Muslim gun trained on a Serb soldier, traveling with a French mercenary, and fleeing from advancing Serbs during battle. The book is filled with firefights and mutilated corpses and is not for the squeamish. Bosnia was "a playground where the worst and most fantastic excesses of the human mind were acted out." For Loyd, the high of battle substituted for the high of heroin and vice versa: "I had come to Bosnia partially as an adventure. But after a while I got into the infinite death trip. I was not unhappy. Quite the opposite. I was delighted with most of what the war had offered me: chicks, kicks, cash and chaos; teenage punk dreams turned real and wreathed in gunsmoke."
Loyd's big break as a war correspondent came when another British journalist was wounded. He had arrived in Bosnia a war junkie, just trying to figure out what was going on and sell a few pictures to newspapers on the side. "Journalism in itself had never really interested me, I saw it only as a passport to war." He did not cover the war like most other journalists--he went right into battles. Loyd dismisses what other journalists did in Bosnia: staying at the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo, driving out to the UN headquarters in an armored car, and then returning to the relative safety of their hotel "to file their heartfelt vitriol with scarcely a hair out of place." Loyd, who did everything but carry a gun against the Serbs, scoffs at the idea of journalistic objectivity. "What good did reporting ever do in Bosnia anyway?" he sneers. In fact, he seems almost embarrassed not to be fighting himself. "I felt I was a pornographer, a voyeur come to watch." Lucky for the rest of us he did go to Bosnia. --Linda Killian [via]
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Naked Lunchby William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James GrauerholzISBN 0802140181 (0-8021-4018-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Lunch'Book summary:"He was," as Salon's Gary Kamiya notes, "20th-century drug culture's Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland into a parallel universe, one as thoroughly and obsessively rendered as Blake's."
Why has this homosexual ex-junkie, whose claim to fame rests entirely on one book--the hallucinogenic ravings of a heroine addict--so seized the collective imagination? Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch in a Tangier, Morocco, hotel room between 1954 and 1957. Allen Ginsberg and his beatnik cronies burst onto the scene, rescued the manuscript from the food-encrusted floor, and introduced some order to the pages. It was published in Paris in 1959 by the notorious Olympia Press and in the U.S. in 1962; the landmark obscenity trial that ensued served to end literary censorship in America.
Burroughs's literary experiment--the much-touted "cut-up" technique--mirrored the workings of a junkie's brain. But it was junk coupled with vision: Burroughs makes teeming amalgam of allegory, sci-fi, and non-linear narration, all wrapped in a blend of humor--slapstick, Swiftian, slang-infested humor. What is Naked Lunch about? People turn into blobs amidst the sort of evil that R. Crumb, in the decades to come, would inimitably flesh out with his dark and creepy cartoon images. Perhaps the most easily grasped part of Naked Lunch is its America-bashing, replete with slang and vitriol. Read it and see for yourself. [via]
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Permanent Midnight: A Memoirby Jerry StahlISBN 0976082209 (0-9760822-0-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Permanent Midnight: A Memoir'Book summary:Now a motion picture starring Ben Stiller, this is the autobiography of Jerry Stahl, a former television writer. Stahl was an aspiring fiction writer who arrives in L.A. and lands a job penning what he considers to be crappy but lucrative TV scripts, and descends into quasi-functional heroin addiction. Available now. [via]
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Prescription of Narcotics for Heroin Addicts: Main Result of the Swiss National Cohort Studyby Ambros UchtenhagenISBN 380556791X (3-8055-6791-X)
Hardcover, S Karger Pub
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Requiem for a Dreamby Hubert SelbyISBN 1560252480 (1-56025-248-0)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Requiem for a Dream'Book summary:In this searing novel first published in 1978, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of heroin and getting rich. But their heroin habit gets the better of them, and Harry's mother's addiction to diet pills lands her in a state mental hospital. [via]
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Scar Tissueby Larry SlomanISBN 1401307450 (1-4013-0745-0)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scar Tissue'Book summary:As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. So much has been written about him, but until now, we've only had Kiedis's songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoirist as he is a lyricist, giving us a searingly honest account of the life from which his music has evolved.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are that rare breed of rock band. Critically lauded and popularly embraced by millions of fans, their albums consistently sell into the stratosphere -- their CD Californication sold over 13 million copies alone.
Now in Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis defies the rock star clichs. In his telling, we can see everything he has done has been part of a passionate journey. Kiedis is a man "in love with everything" -- the darkness, the death, the disease. Even his descent into drug addition was a part of that journey, another element that he has transformed into art. [via]
The Sceneby Clarence CooperISBN 0393314634 (0-393-31463-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Smackby Melvin BurgessISBN 0060521872 (0-06-052187-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smack'Book summary:Like so many teenagers, Tar and Gemma are fed up with their parents. Tar's family is alcoholic and abusive, and Gemma feels her home life is cramped by too many restrictions. The young, British couple runs away to Bristol in search of freedom, and finds it in the form of a "squat." This vacant building is also occupied by two slightly older teens who share everything with Tar and Gemma (including their heroin habits). For a while, everything is parties and adventures, but slowly Tar and Gemma find themselves growing more and more dependent on the drug--whose strict mandates are even less forgiving than those of the parents they fled. As Gemma says, "You take more and more, and more often. Then you get sick of it and give up for a few days. And that's the really nasty thing because then, when you're clean, that's when it works so well."
With Smack, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for Fiction, Melvin Burgess brilliantly sketches a gradual descent into drug addiction. There is no preaching here, just the artful revelation of cold, hard facts. Burgess's use of the first-person voice--for not only the main characters but those in the background as well--brings you into the mind of every character in this homeless, hooked culture, offering a (sometimes terrible) glimpse of the motivations and transitions of each person. (Tar's personality changes dramatically over the course of the book, from sweet-natured, lonely boy to hard-edged, hit-seeking addict.) More subtle and less graphic than Beauty Queen, Linda Glovach's tale of a girl's downward spiral into heroin addiction, Smack will linger in the your mind long after its haunting conclusion has been reached. (Ages 13 and older) --Brangien Davis [via]
A Small Journal of Heroin Addictionby Robin MarchettiISBN 0743300521 (0-7433-0052-1)
Softcover, Clocktower Books
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Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepperby Art Pepper, Laurie PepperISBN 1841950645 (1-84195-064-5)
Hardcover, Mojo Books
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The Street Addict Role: A Theory of Heroin Addictionby Richard C. StephensISBN 0791406199 (0-7914-0619-9)
Hardcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Trainspottingby Irvine WelshISBN 0393314804 (0-393-31480-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trainspotting'Book summary:Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only "mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect--essential, since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision sung as musical comedy. [via]
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Trainspotting: A Screenplayby Irvine Welsh, John HodgeISBN 0786882212 (0-7868-8221-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trainspotting: A Screenplay'Book summary:Trainspotting is based on the novel by Irvine Welsh. It is always nice to compare the book/screenplay or novel or whatever format the original is in, to the movie. As always things cut from the story when made into a movie - are in the book. [via]
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El Almuerzo Desnudoby W. BURROUGHSISBN 8433920081 (84-339-2008-1)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Almuerzo Desnudo'Book summary:Esta novela, una de las mas miticas de la literatura norteamericana, es un descenso a los infiernos de la droga y una denuncia horrorizada y sardonica, onirica y alucinatoria de la sociedad actual, un mundo sin esperanza ni futuro. Burroughs dispara sus flechas contra las religiones, el ejercito, la universidad, la sexualidad, la justicia corrupta, los traficantes tramposos, el colonialismo, la burocracia, y la psiquiatria representada por el siniestro Dr. Benway, el gran manipulador de conciencias, el experto en Control total. / Naked Lunch, one of the most mythical novels of North American literature, is a descent into the hellfire of drugs, and a horrified, sardonic, dreamlike and hallucinatory denouncement of todays society, a world with no hope and no future. Burroughs fires his arrows against religion, the army, university, sexuality, the corruption of justice, cheating dealers, colonialism, bureaucracy and the psychiatry represented by the sinister Dr. Benway, the great manipulator of consciences, the expert of total Control. [via]
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La Heavier Than Heavenby Charles R. CrossISBN 8439711549 (84-397-1154-9)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori
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La Invocaciónby Stephen KingISBN 8440612052 (84-406-1205-2)
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Transpoittingby I. WelshISBN 843396643X (84-339-6643-X)
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