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Permanent Midnight

A Memoir

Jerry Stahl author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Rare Bird Books

Published:5th Nov '15

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Jerry Stahl's seminal memoir of drug addiction and a career in Hollywood, Permanent Midnight is a classic along the lines of Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn. Illuminating the self-loathing and self-destruction of an addict's inner life, Permanent Midnight follows Stahl through the dregs of addiction and into sobriety. In 1998, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Maria Bello starred in a film version of Permanent Midnight to much acclaim. Nic Sheff, author of Tweak, writes the introduction to this edition.

"An extraordinary accomplishment... A remarkable book that will be of great value to people who feel isolated, alienated and overwhelmed by the circumstances of their lives." --Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn "[Stahl] is a better-than-Burroughs virtuoso." --Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker "Original, appalling, indelible picture of a man trying to swim and drown at the same time. Stahl has nerve, heart, a language of his own and a ghastly, riotous humor." --Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy's Life "Permanent Midnight is one of the most harrowing and toughest accounts ever written in this century about what it means to be a junkie in America, making Burroughs look dated and Kerouac appear as the nose-thumbing adolescent he was." --Booklist

ISBN: 9781942600053

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 737g

396 pages

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