Cain's Book
Cain's Book This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the rivers and bays of New York. Junk for Necchi, however, is a tool, freely chosen and fully justified; he is…
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Cain's Book
This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the rivers and bays of New York. Junk for Necchi, however, is a tool, freely chosen and fully justified; he is Cain, the malcontent, the profligate, the rebel who lives by no one's rules but his own. Joe's world is the half-world of drugs and addicts -- the world of furtive fixes in sordid Harlem apartments, of police pursuits down deserted subway stations.
But unlike his literary predecessors, in his roman a clef, Trocchi never romanticizes the source of his inspiration. Like DeQuincey and Baudelaire before him, Trocchi's muse was drugs. If the experience of heroin, of the "fix," is central to Cain's Book, both its destructive force and the possibilities for creativity it creates are recognized and accepted without apology.
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