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Cain's Book

Alexander Trocchi
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      This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the rivers and bays of New York. Joe's world is the half-world of drugs and addicts -- the world of furtive fixes in sordid Harlem apartments, of police pursuits down deserted subway stations. Junk for Necchi, however, is a tool, freely chosen and fully justified; he is Cain, the malcontent, the profligate, the rebel who lives by no one's rules but his own. Like DeQuincey and Baudelaire before him, Trocchi's muse was drugs. But unlike his literary predecessors, in his roman a clef, Trocchi never romanticizes the source of his inspiration. If the experience of heroin, of the "fix," is central to Cain's Book, both its destructive force and the possibilities for creativity it creates are recognized and accepted without apology. "Cain's Book is the classic late-1950s account of heroin addiction. . . . An un-self-forgiving existentialism, rendered with writerly exactness and muscularity, set this novel apart from all others of the genre." -- William S. Burroughs
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Alexander Trocchi EAN: 9780802133144 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 318 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1993-11-11 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / General WIDTH: 146 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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      This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the rivers and bays of New York. Joe's world is the half-world of drugs and addicts -- the world of furtive fixes in sordid Harlem apartments, of police pursuits down deserted subway stations. Junk for Necchi, however, is a tool, freely chosen and fully justified; he is Cain, the malcontent, the profligate, the rebel who lives by no one's rules but his own. Like DeQuincey and Baudelaire before him, Trocchi's muse was drugs. But unlike his literary predecessors, in his roman a clef, Trocchi never romanticizes the source of his inspiration. If the experience of heroin, of the "fix," is central to Cain's Book, both its destructive force and the possibilities for creativity it creates are recognized and accepted without apology. "Cain's Book is the classic late-1950s account of heroin addiction. . . . An un-self-forgiving existentialism, rendered with writerly exactness and muscularity, set this novel apart from all others of the genre." -- William S. Burroughs
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Alexander Trocchi EAN: 9780802133144 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 318 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1993-11-11 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / General WIDTH: 146 cm SPINE:

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      Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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