![]() Burroughs' "'Junkie,' Jim Carroll's 'Basketball Diaries,' and Thomas De Quincey's 'The Confessions of an English Opium Eater'." 220 pages. In the annals of addiction literature it will take its place beside William S. ![]() There is much about craving the validation of danger, about suburban childhood, about the loss of a father to Parkinson's disease, about moving to the East Village, musicians' parties, being cool and about striving to remake yourself. There is no glamorization of "heroin chic," nothing about the irresistable power of the drug, no cliched sense of degradation and ecstasy. Weaving personal history (Marlowe used Heroin for seven years) with aphorisms and analysis, Ann Marlowe is unsparing in her exploration of her, and society's obsession with heroin addiction. ![]() ![]() "Cultural criticism masquerading as a heroin memoir masquerading as a dictionary, 'How to Stop Time' looks at American society through the lens of heroin use. Acclaimed New York writer/critic's debut book. ![]()
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