Would you endure the torment of failure to experience the catharsis of peace? You can.
Winner of the second-place award in Contemporary Fiction for the prestigious 2025 Digital Book Today Literary awards, and currently in development to be a major motion picture, the Down and out in Seattle and Tacoma book series showcases the best in gritty contemporary indie fiction with a punk rock and satirical take on mental health and drug addiction.
Charming but flawed Jack was never "right," but that's a lot of what made him magnetic to others. His decades-long deterioration is chronicled in painful detail with a mix of dark humor, tragedy, and brutal self-awareness that is unlike any book you've ever read. Sharp, poetic, and deeply human, but not a feel-good story. It's a gut punch that is absolutely unforgettable.
Author Christopher J. Stockwell's existential and absurdist masterpiece shows you a Seattle that is a medically-prescribed nightmare. It mirrors the best aspects of the alcohol-induced blackout that is Charles Bukowski's LA, and the blue-faced overdose that is Irvine Welsh's Edinburgh. The Complete Down and Out in Seattle and Tacoma Series takes you there and shows you the view you can only get from the gutter. Enjoy!
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Hat, Ant (illustrator). Neuware - Meet Jack. Jack is charming. Jack is an alcoholic and drug addict. Jack is mentally ill. The Pacific Northwest in the 1980s and 1990s is a drug subculture, wrapped in a music scene, isolated in a fishbowl. Locals only. Nobody gets in, and nobody gets out. Until they do. Jack's world is gone. New people, new ideas, and a new culture in the PNW has long since supplanted him and his ilk. In that forgotten world, Jack rode his charming disposition to the peak of his mediocre subculture's hierarchy. Whenever he was able to rise up, his myriad of mental illnesses and substance abuse always knocked him back down in the gutter. Watching Jack isn't always fun. Often, it's genuinely painful, but it's always real. Jack exists in a well-documented place and time, but he embodies that part that nobody talks about. Seller Inventory # 9798988311690