Junkie Love - Softcover

Shoenfelt, Phil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8086264173 ISBN 13: 9788086264172

Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press, 2001

Synopsis

Fiction. JUNKIE LOVE, set in Camden Town, London, during the late 1980s, is a study of addiction and loss, a nihilistic love story for the blank generation. Focusing on the psycho-pathology of addiction, it takes a look at what happens when hope disappears and hedonism turns to despair and loathing. Largely autobiographical and leavened with irony and perverse humor, JUNKIE LOVE "shoots straight from the gut, puts the picture in your face, what a junkie faces from moment to moment, through each day"-Ruth Weiss. With illustrations by Jolana Izbicka.

About this title

Review:

"A nice, nasty read. I enjoyed it a lot" (Nick Cave)

"A fine, gutsy, spare rendering of the drug underworld" (Will Self)

"A modern evocation of classic fin de siecle literature, complete with classy illustrations ... This love affair between a man, a woman and a needle goes the same tender, heartbreaking way as Hubert Selby Jr.'s Requiem for a Dream. From the warm glow of kindred spirits binding with the chemical mix of love and heroin to the suppurating end, Junkie Love is as beautifully written as it is presented." (Bizarre)

"During their time in the underworld, he and his girlfriend learnt painful, strange things about addiction and identity, and he enunciates them beautifully in this heavy little book....essential reading for anyone interested in how things go wrong" (Financial Times)

From the Publisher:

Camden Town. The late 1980's. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 8086264173
• ISBN 13: 9788086264172
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148