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Cain George
Cain George - Blueschild Baby A Novel - Paperback
Cain George - Blueschild Baby A Novel - Paperback
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Description: A searing chronicle of the life of a young ex - convict and heroin addict in 1960's Harlem an unsparing portrait of a man who couldn t free himself from the horrors of addiction Blueschild Baby takes place during the summer of 1967 the summer of race riots all across the nation; the Summer of Love in the Haight Ashbury; the summer of Marines dying near Con Thien across the world in Vietnam but the novel illuminates the contours of a more private hell: the angry desperation of a heroin addict who returns to his home in Harlem after being in prison. First published in 1970, this frankly autobiographical novel was a revelation a stunning depiction of a marginal figure marked literally and figuratively by his drug addiction and navigating a predatory underground of junkies and hustlers and named George Cain like his author. Now with a new preface by acclaimed writer Leslie Jamison this is an unvarnished conjuring of the tyranny of dependence: its desperation its degradation its rage and rebellion; the fragile unsettled occasional shards of hope it permits; the strange joys of being alive and young and lost and hooked and full of feverish determination anyway.
Title: Blueschild Baby A Novel
Author(s): Cain George
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062913166
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/3/2023
Description: A searing chronicle of the life of a young ex - convict and heroin addict in 1960's Harlem an unsparing portrait of a man who couldn t free himself from the horrors of addiction Blueschild Baby takes place during the summer of 1967 the summer of race riots all across the nation; the Summer of Love in the Haight Ashbury; the summer of Marines dying near Con Thien across the world in Vietnam but the novel illuminates the contours of a more private hell: the angry desperation of a heroin addict who returns to his home in Harlem after being in prison. First published in 1970, this frankly autobiographical novel was a revelation a stunning depiction of a marginal figure marked literally and figuratively by his drug addiction and navigating a predatory underground of junkies and hustlers and named George Cain like his author. Now with a new preface by acclaimed writer Leslie Jamison this is an unvarnished conjuring of the tyranny of dependence: its desperation its degradation its rage and rebellion; the fragile unsettled occasional shards of hope it permits; the strange joys of being alive and young and lost and hooked and full of feverish determination anyway.
Title: Blueschild Baby A Novel
Author(s): Cain George
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062913166
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/3/2023