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The back of my copy has a blurb that says all the egomaniac vitality of the early henry miller, but miller was far more joyous and trocchi a straight and narrow nihilist. At various points in his life he was a straighta student, a pig farmer, a family man, a pimp, a heroin addict, a pornographer, a dealer in antique books, a forger, a polemicist, a revolutionary, a literary editor, a cosmonaut of inner space, and not least a novelist and writer. Download pdf tintin and the secret of literature free. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading cain s book. Written in america while trocchi was working on a scow on the hudson river, cain s book is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a junkys life, and an honest, raunchy, eyeopening trip through hell. Trocchi s cain s book, provide privileged insight into the subculture of the heroin addict.
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Aug 08, 2003 mean streets alexander trocchi was the smackaddled icon of beat literature, whose writings have been eclipsed by a lurid life of porn, pimping and dissolution in new york, paris and london. One could call this a junkies memoir or journal, but it is much more than that. Buy cains book by alexander trocchi from waterstones today. Here is the tortured halfworld of drugs and addicts, of furtive fixes in harlem pads, of swift, casual love described with a ruthless honesty and a verbal magic that propelled alexander trocchi in the front ranks of today s young novelists.
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If the experience of heroin, of the fix, is central to cain s book, both its destructive force and the possibilities it holds for creativity are recognized and accepted without apology. A roman a clef, it details the life of joe necchi, a heroin addict and writer, who is living and working on a scow on the hudson river in new york. You can read all your books for as long as a month for free. He was born in 1925 in glasgow, the son of an italian father.
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