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- Title: Cain's Book
- Author : Alexander Trocchi
- Release Date : January 24, 2017
- Genre: Literary,Books,Fiction & Literature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1138 KB
Description
A Beat-era novel of heroin addiction in 1950s New York City that was called āa treasureā by Ken Kesey.
This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the rivers and bays of New York. Joeās world is the half-world of drugs and addictsāthe 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 oneās rules but his own.
Author Alexander Trocchiās muse was drugsābut in this novel, he does not romanticize the source of his inspiration. If the experience of heroin, of the āfix,ā is central to Cainās Book, both its destructive force and the possibilities it holds for creativity are recognized and accepted without apology.
āThe classic of the 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.ā āWilliam S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch