Junkie Love

Junkie Love

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Camden Town. The late 1980s. A hinterland of rundown squats, petty crime and hard drugs.Amid this sordid milieu, junkies Phil and Cissy go about their daily routine of sex, shooting up and dodging the police. For a while they have each other and nothing else seems to matter. But as their addictions worsen, money runs short and Cissy’s psychotic ex-boyfriend is released from prison, their relationship begins to disintegrate into mutual distrust and loathing…Raw, repellent and yet shot through with mordant wit, Junkie Love is Phil Shoenfelt’s semi-fictionalised account of the heroin addiction that almost cost him his sanity and his life.

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Weight 0.155 kg
Dimensions 1.2 × 12.6 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

160
Publisher

Year Published

2007-7-5
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

009191423X
About The Author

Phil Shoenfelt was born in Bradford, England, in December 1952. After colliding with the London punk scene in the mid-1970s, he moved to New York where he played in several punk and post-punk bands, such as Khmer Rouge. Returning to London in 1984, he continued making music until encroaching heroin addiction brought a temporary halt to all artistic activities. Finally kicking the habit after eleven years, he embarked upon a solo career and in 1995 moved to Prague. In recent years he has produced several CDs of his music on various independent labels: solo; with his band, Southern Cross; and with the Berlin-based Australian group Fatal Shore. Junkie Love is Shoenfelt's first novel.

A nice, nasty read. I enjoyed it a lot
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A fine, gutsy, spare rendering of the drug underworld

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