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Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Michael Largo
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"Genius and Heroin" chronicles the lives of the famously talented who have entwined their genius with the path toward self-ruin. With 250 illustrations and photographs, as well as sidebars highlighting curious facts, this guide is the definitive sourcebook on how the notoriously creative have lived and died.
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What is the price of brilliance?
Why are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollack, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin, to Kurt Cobain, and on and on, authors and artists throughout history have binged, pill-popped, injected, or poisoned themselves for their art. Fully illustrated and addictively readable, Genius and Heroin is the indispensable reference to the untidy lives of our greatest artists and thinkers, entertainingly chronicling how the notoriously creative lived and died--whether their ultimate downfalls were the result of opiates, alcohol, pot, absinthe, or the slow-motion suicide of obsession.
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- Title Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages
- Author Michael Largo
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2008-10-07
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9780061466410 / 0061466417
- Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 5.54 x 0.94 in (22.91 x 14.07 x 2.39 cm)
- Category Biography / Autobiography
- Library of Congress subjects Gifted persons, Gifted persons - Mental health
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009275597
- Dewey Decimal Code 920.02
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- Kirkus Reference Reviews-Adult, 09/01/2008, Page 1
- Publishers Weekly, 07/14/2008, Page 53
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