Dopefiend - Softcover

Goines, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870679953 ISBN 13: 9780870679957

Publisher: All America Distributors Corp, 2000

Synopsis

For twenty-three years of his life Donald Goinse lived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the junkie. It started while he was doing military service in Korea and ended with his murder at the age of thirty nine. He had worked up to a hundred dollars a day habit and out of the agonizing hell came Dopefiend! It is the shocking nightmare story of a black heroin addict. Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend- both handsome, talented, and full of promise- are inexorably pulled into death of the hardcore junkie!

About this title

About the Author:

Donald Goines (1936-1974) was a career criminal and addict who took up writing during one of his seven prison sentences. Between 1969 and 1974, he published sixteen novels, which are now recognized as almost unbearably authentic portraits of the roughest aspects of the black experience.

About this edition

• Publisher: All America Distributors Corp
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0870679953
• ISBN 13: 9780870679957
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320