Blueschild Baby Paperback - 2019
by George Cain; Introduction by Leslie Jamison
From the rear cover
A searing chronicle of the life of a young ex-convict and heroin addict in 1960s Harlem, an unsparing portrait of a man who couldn't free himself from the horrors of addiction.
Blueschild Baby takes place during the summer of 1967-the summer of race riots all across the nation; the Summer of Love in the Haight-Ashbury; the summer of Marines dying near Con Thien, across the world in Vietnam-but the novel illuminates the contours of a more private hell: the angry desperation of a heroin addict who returns to his home in Harlem after being in prison.
First published in 1970, this frankly autobiographical novel was a revelation, a stunning depiction of a marginal figure, marked literally and figuratively by his drug addiction and navigating a predatory underground of junkies and hustlers-and named George Cain, like his author.
Now with a new introduction by acclaimed writer Leslie Jamison, this is an unvarnished conjuring of the tyranny of dependence: its desperation, its degradation, its rage and rebellion; the fragile, unsettled, occasional shards of hope it permits; the strange joys of being alive and young and lost and hooked and full of feverish determination anyway.
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- Title Blueschild Baby
- Author George Cain; Introduction by Leslie Jamison
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press
- Date 2019-03-12
- ISBN 9780062913166 / 0062913166
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.5 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 1.27 cm)
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), African Americans
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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