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Cain's Book (Paperback or Softback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- EAN
- 9780802133144
- ISBN
- 0802133142
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- Cain's Book
- Publisher
- GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Edition
- 2
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General
- Item Weight
- 11 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 252 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0802133142
ISBN-13
9780802133144
eBay Product ID (ePID)
846326
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Cain's Book
Number of Pages
252 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1993
Topic
General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
92-024900
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
823.914
Synopsis
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, 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.
LC Classification Number
PR6070.R56C28 1992
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