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Cain's Book (Paperback or Softback)

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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
Author
Alexander Trocchi
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
Topic
General
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Fiction
Author
Alexander Trocchi
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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