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Select guidance on extreme cuisine, gutter beverages, tawdry travel, seedy films, dissolute sex and corrupt individuals. Featuring contributions from the 19th century's anti-heroes-Oscar Wilde, Octave Mirbeau and J.K. Huysmans - and the wayward spiritds of our age - Hari Kunzru, Nicholas Royle, Louise Welsh, Helen Walsh, Belle de Jour. "Finallt somenone has seen fit to publish a guide for the modern decadent, the velvet-jacketed, absinthe-quaffing, pan-sexual, drug-sniffing wretch that is to be found adorning our society's basest hang-outs," 'New Statesman' "Passages of striking, dark beauty" The Guardian "Naughty but a perversely perky cabaret...A farrago of offortful wickedness". The Independent "A one-stop louche shop for those looking to tune out, turn on, and cop off." Kelly Salter in The Big Issue "This lovely volume is a delight...Sometimes alluring, sometimes repellent, its other great strength is its acknowledgement of the dark side of decadence - for every binge is a hangover, for every Byron s a Glitter." 'The Crack'