Dopefiend

Goines, Donald

ISBN 10: 1482959453 ISBN 13: 9781482959451

Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

The shocking nightmare story of a black heroin addictTrapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, ayoung man and his girlfriend-both attractive, talented, and full of promise-areinexorably pulled into the living death of the hardcore junkie. It is ahorrifying world where addicts will do anything to get their next fix. For twenty-three years of his young life, Donald Goineslived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the junkie. It started while he wasdoing military service in Korea and ended with his murder at the age ofthirty-nine. He had worked up to a hundred-dollars-a-day habit-and out of theagonizing hell came Dopefiend.

Biografía del autor:

Donald Goines (1936-1974) was a career criminal and addict who took up writing during one of his seven prison sentences. Between 1969 and 1974, he published sixteen novels, which are now recognized as almost unbearably authentic portraits of the roughest aspects of the black experience.

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• Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1482959453
• ISBN 13: 9781482959451
• Einband: CD MP3