Blueschild Baby
A searing chronicle of the life of a young ex-convict and heroin addict in 1960s 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 depictio…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Jamison, Leslie (Einf.)
- ISBN: 978-0-06-291316-6
- EAN: 9780062913166
- Produktnummer: 28535994
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Gattung: Novel
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.4 cm x D1.7 cm 166 g
- Gewicht: 166
Über den Autor
George Cain was born in New York in 1943. He entered Iona College on scholarship but left in his junior year to travel, spending time in California, Mexico, and Texas. He started writing in 1966. Blueschild Baby was his only book. He died in New York in 2010.
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