{"product_id":"cains-book-paperback","title":"Cain's Book - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexander Trocchi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGreil Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eRichard Seaver\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 252\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.25 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 11, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47228980855033,"sku":"9780802133144","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Wi8wK1V5YllXbWtuVGxZbE5pc2I2QT09.webp?v=1768296931","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/cains-book-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}