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repulsive and nauseating fresh, unputdownable, disturbing searing short stories beautiful and horrifyingDescribed by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. George... More details on Last Exit to Brooklyn
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a...
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What do readers say about Trainspotting?
short story collection lowland scots dialect different narrators throughout poorly photoshopped images'An unremitting powerhouse of a novel that marks the arrival of a major new talent. Trainspotting is a loosely knotted string of jagged, dislocated tales that lay bare the hearts of darkness of the junkies, wide-boys and psychos who ride in the down ... More details on Trainspotting
Croxy, sweating from exertion rather than from drug abuse for once in his life, struggles up the stairs with the last box of records as I collapse on the bed, gaping through a numb depression at the c...
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What do readers say about The Room?
downright psycho. edit disappointing and tedious horrific or shockingly disturbing * dark *'It is quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size room' says the anonymous narrator of Hubert Selby Jr.'s second novel. What follows is a startling series of recollections and fantasies that illuminate the workings of a prisoner'... More details on The Room
HE WAS CONSCIOUS OF the dark stillness in the corridor. He knew there was nothing to be seen, yet he continued to stare thru the reflection of his face in the small window. The corridor was only 7 fee...
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What do readers say about The Basketball Diaries?
drug addiction and culture high school years different people's experiences sort of contemporaryThe urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball
Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960s, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager makin... More details on The Basketball Diaries
Today was my first Biddy League game and my first day in any organized basketball league. I'm enthused about life due to this exciting event. The Biddy League is a league for anyone 12 yrs. old or und...
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What do readers say about A Million Little Pieces?
raw and honest short, clear and concise gripping and innovative drugs and addictionA story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative n... More details on A Million Little Pieces
I wake to the drone of an airplane engine and the feeling of something warm dripping down my chin. I lift my hand to feel my face. My front four teeth are gone, I have a hole in my cheek, my nose is b...
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What do readers say about Jesus' Son?
collection of short stories half dream, half wreck spare and direct john cheever on heroinAmerican master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers
Denis Johnson's now classic story collection Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls... More details on Jesus' Son
An intense collection of interconnected stories that portray life through the eyes of a young man in a small Iowa town, by the author of Already Dead: A California Gothic, Angels and Resuscitation of ...
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What do readers say about Beautiful Boy?
heart wrenching story straight forward way pace and interweaving how much research#1 New York Times bestseller
Now a Major Motion Picture
Starring Steve Carell * Timothée Chalamet * Maura Tierney * and Amy Ryan
"A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will ... More details on Beautiful Boy
My wife, Vicki, and I live in Berkeley in a whitewashed clapboard bungalow built in the 1920s, hidden from the street behind a wall of black bamboo. It is 1982, a summer of waiting. Everything else—wo...
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What do readers say about Crank?
free verse poetry drug addicted youth young adult realistic fiction real life lessonsThe #1 New York Times bestselling tale of addiction-the first in the Crank trilogy-from master poet Ellen Hopkins.
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What do readers say about Tweak?
sad, happy, distressful a true cautionary tale raw and honest an incredible memoirThe story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.
This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man's addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of t... More details on Tweak
I’d heard rumors about what happened to Lauren. I mean, I never even knew her that well but we’d sort of hung out a few times in high school. Actually, I was sleeping with her for about two weeks. She...
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What do readers say about A Scanner Darkly?
the drug trade gritty and gripping it's much more serious loss without redemptionWinner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel, Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly is a semi-autobiographical novel of drug addiction set in a future American dystopia ??-?? and the basis for the Hugo Award finalist film starri... More details on A Scanner Darkly
Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair. The doctor told him there were no bugs in his hair. After he had taken a shower for eight hours, standing under hot water hour after hour suffering...
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