PERMANENT MIDNIGHT : A Memoir - Softcover

Jerry Stahl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976082209 ISBN 13: 9780976082200

Publisher: PROCESS, 2005

Synopsis

A searing confessional infused with the darkest humour, Permanent Midnight chronicles the opiated abyss of a Hollywood screenwriter and his formidable climb into society. Made into a major motion picture starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, Permanent Midnight is revered by critics and an ever-growing cult of devoted readers as one of the most compelling contemporary memoirs. From the author of the hugely popular I, Fatty.

About this title

Product Description:

Permanent Midnight Now a motion picture starring Ben Stiller, this is the autobiography of a former television writer who lands a job penning what he considers to be crappy but lucrative TV scripts, and descends into a quasi-functional heroin addiction. Full description

Review:

An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A remarkable book that will be of great value to people who feel isolated, alienated and overwhelmed by the circumstances of their lives.”
Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn

[Stahl] is a better-than-Burroughs virtuoso.”
Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker

Original, appalling, indelible picture of a man trying to swim and drown at the same time. Stahl has nerve, heart, a language of his own and a ghastly, riotous humor.”
Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy’s Life

Permanent Midnight is one of the most harrowing and toughest accounts ever written in this century about what it means to be a junkie in America, making Burroughs look dated and Kerouac appear as the nose-thumbing adolescent he was.”
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About this edition

• Publisher: PROCESS
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0976082209
• ISBN 13: 9780976082200
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 380