Cain's Book

Author:

Alexander Trocchi

New | 224 pp.
ISBN: 9781847492654
Published: 2010

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Written in America while Trocchi was working on a scow on the Hudson River, Cain’s Book is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a junky’s life, and an honest, raunchy, eye-opening trip through hell.

Probably the most famous novel about drug addiction and the hazards and excitements of an addict’s life after Burrough’s Naked Lunch, this modern classic – which was prosecuted in Britain for obscenity in 1965 – still shocks in its frankness and is relevant to this day.

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'It is different from other books, it is true, it has art, it is brave.' Norman Mailer

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Alexander Trocchi left Glasgow University with the honours of a brilliant philosophy scholar. In Paris, he founded 'Merlin' - the outstanding literary magazine, wrote novels for Olympia Press, experimented with heroin and became hooked. He is best known for Cain's Book and Young Adam.

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