How To Stop Time: Heroin From A To Z

Author: Ann Marlowe

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  • : $35.00 AUD
  • : 9780385720168
  • : Anchor Books
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  • : 07 November 2000
  • : 217mm X 141mm X 18mm
  • : United States
  • : 33.99
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Barcode 9780385720168
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Description

How to Stop Time is an important contemporary contribution to the classic accounts of the seductive attractions and dangerous distractions of drug use. In this hypnotic and piercingly intelligent chronicle, Ann Marlowe dissects her former heroin habit, and recounts in harrowing detail the rigors and realities of life under the influence while building a successful Wall Street career and establishing a reputation as a critic in the alternative press. A one-time Harvard grad student in philosophy, Marlowe ruthlessly examines the paradoxical nature of addiction, and connects her own experience to a wider discussion of heroin in the context of our post-consumer, digital society.

Author description

Ann Marlowe is a New York writer and critic who has written on music, books, and culture for The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Artforum, and Bookforum.She lives in New York City."