How to stop time: heroin from A to Z

Description

Acknowledgments; a; abstention; addiction; aging; alphabet; arrest; athletics; babble; bad thing; bag; basement; beginning; blurring; body; brand names; business; busy; buzz; capitalist; car; chair; cheated; chronology; city; clean; cleaning; clear; clothing; colds; cool; copping; crime; D; dark; dating; dealer; death; democracy; dentistry; digital; dollhouse; dope fiend; dosages; driver; dumped; East Village; eating; emotions; entropy; family; fearless; fiction; fight; first time; free will; fun; gender; geographical; girl; glamour; god; gothic; guiltless; habit; hidden; hippies; hologram.;Marlowe weaves personal history with aphorisms and analysis to explore her own and society's obsession with heroin. She delves beneath the surface of addiction and the familiar cliches, offering many insights into the nature of nostalgia, and the craving for predictable experience on the one hand and the excitement of danger on the other. The tale is told through snapshots of her life and relationships. The author is a writer and critic who has written on music, books, and culture for the Village Voice, LA Weekly, Artforum, and Bookforum. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.