Junkie Love
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (605 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 009191423X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
With illustrations by Jolana Izbicka.. Focusing on the psycho-pathology of addiction, it takes a look at what happens when hope disappears and hedonism turns to despair and loathing. Largely autobiographical and leavened with irony and perverse humor, JUNKIE LOVE "shoots straight from the gut, puts the picture in your face, what a junkie faces from moment to moment, through each day"-Ruth Weiss. Fiction. JUNKIE LOVE, set in Camden Town, London, during the late 1980s, is a study of addiction and loss, a nihilistic love story for the blank generation
I enjoyed it a lot. -- (Iva Pekarkova)A modern evocation of classic fin de siècle literature Junkie Love is as beautifully written as it is presented. -- Will SelfA gripping soldier's story of the times when the junkie's worst worries were himself and the badly cut drugs. An essential read! -- Nikki SuddenThis book is tough love. -- Marianne Truce, Apple of the EyeJunkie Love — a nice, nasty read. -- (Nick Cave)Shoenfelt is at his best when describing the psychology of addiction and recording the pains of withdrawal. -- Bizarre, #55, February 2002A trenchant, cautionary tale, that successfully avoids the self-righteous tone of the "recovered." -- (Michael Gira, author of The Consumer)Beautiful. -- The Prague Post, December 2001The best book about heroin since Junkie. A great story of drugs, sex and trying to figure t
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Heroin Mon Amour The tale Shoenfelt tales is a familiar to anyone who's read THE STORY OF JUNK, JUNKY, CANDY, HOW TO STOP TIME, namely "how I fell in and out of love with heroin." Shoenfelt is very good on the details--you are right in every awful place he shoots up; unsparing and unsentimental about the attractions of heroin; the concactenation of pleasure and humiliation; difficult personal insights addiction can bring and the fact that doesn't redeem the misery you're making of your life and the lives of others. He also has a great sense of humor; the ability to laugh at himself and others; also sympathize with them.. Couldn't put it down Susan Perkins I could hardly put this down. As Nick Cave said about it, it's "A nice, nasty read." I enjoy reading drug abuse/recovery memoirs. This book did not disappoint. Well-written, moves quickly, lots of great insight into the world of the junkie.