How to stop time : heroin from A to Z / Ann Marlowe
- Bib ID:
- 36188
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Marlowe, Ann
- Description:
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- New York : Basic Books, c1999
- vi, 297 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0465031501
- Summary:
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"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."--BOOK JACKET. "Weaving personal history with aphorisms and analysis, Ann Marlowe is unsparing in her exploration of her, and society's, obsession with heroin addiction. This is no glamorization of "heroin chic," no cautionary tale about the irresistible power of the drug, no cliched memoir of degradation and ecstasy. Instead, Marlowe delves beneath the surface of addiction, offering many startling insights into the nature of nostalgia and the love of predictable experience on the one hand and craving the validation of danger on the other; about suburban childhood, and striving to remake yourself."--BOOK JACKET. "how to stop time is the first book to examine heroin in relation to our cynical, post-consumer society, and the first to explain the profound nostalgia that powers both addiction and our age."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject:
- Heroin abuse
- Also Titled:
- Heroin from A to Z
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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