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Author: | Algren, Nelson |
Title: | The Man with the Golden Arm |
Publisher: | Doubleday, New York |
Pages: | 343 pp. |
Date: | 1949 |
Format: | Novel |
Descriptor: | Heroin; Social problems |
Annotation:Heroin addict Frankie Machine is a Purple Heart veteran who finds survival difficult in the drug subculture of post-war Chicago. Grim realism and stark descriptions of drug addiction. | |
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative. |
Author: | Baldwin, James |
Title: | Another Country |
Publisher: | Dial Press, New York |
Pages: | 436 pp. |
Date: | 1962 |
Format: | Novel |
Descriptor: | Social problems |
Annotation:A small group of acquaintances, white and black, roam the subcultures of Harlem, Greenwich Village and France in a series of social and sexual encounters which include drug experiences as a mode of normalcy. | |
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative. |
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