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Author alexander trocchis muse was drugsbut in this novel, he does not romanticize the source of his inspiration. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook. Alexander trocchi 192584 was a controversial scottish novelist of the beat generation. Cain s book is trocchi s selfreflexive look at his life as a junky.
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The prose seemed to affirm at every turn the presence of someone who, besides knowing how to write, fundamentally understood and articulated what literature is. Oct 09, 2017 alexander trocchi 192584 left glasgow university with the honours of a brilliant philosophy scholar. Burroughss junky and alexander trocchis cains book, locates the authors of heroin. 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. 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. Cain s book kindle edition by trocchi, alexander, marcus, greil, seaver, richard.
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Sep 27, 2008 when we were selecting the books for bookkakes opening collection, one of the authors we wanted to include was alexander trocchi, the scottish editor of merlin and author of young adam and cains book, as well as, pseudonymously, several volumes from maurice girodias olympia press. Alexander trocchi was a prolific writer of novels and essays, of porn for the olympia press in paris, a magazine editor and bookseller, and one of the few scottish writers who wrote in the beat tradition of the 1950s and 60s. If the experience of heroin, of the fix, is central to cains book, both its destructive force and the possibilities it holds for creativity are recognized and accepted without apology. 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. But trocchi was an independent writer of immense gifts and cain s book, rather than being a downbeat, depressing look at a sordid subject, is quite the reverse. Alexander trocchis most popular book is young adam.
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