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Joe Clifford
Paperback | Pages: 216 pages Rating: 4.3 | 289 Users | 63 Reviews
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| Title | : | Junkie Love |
| Author | : | Joe Clifford |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 216 pages |
| Published | : | March 13th 2013 by Battered Suitcase Press |
| Categories | : | Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography Memoir |
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From the cow fields of Connecticut to the streets of San Francisco, Joe Clifford’s Junkie Love traverses the lost highways of America, down the rocky roads of mental illness to the dead ends of addiction. Based on Clifford’s own harrowing experience with drugs as a rock ’n’ roll wannabe in the 1990s, the book draws on the best of Kerouac & the Beats, injecting a heavy dose of pulp fiction as it threads a rollicking narrative through a doomed love triangle, lit up by the many strange characters he meets along the way. Part road story, part resurrection tale, Junkie Love finds a way to laugh in one’s darkest hour, while never abandoning its heart in search of a home.Rating Appertaining To Books Junkie Love
Ratings: 4.3 From 289 Users | 63 ReviewsEvaluation Appertaining To Books Junkie Love
Junkie Love is a romance, but it doesnt so much involve the women in the book. Its fundamentally a love story about heroin.We follow the narrator from past to present and back again, from speed freaks trailer floors, to homeless shelters, to rehabs. We walk with him into the very depths of earthly hellcesspools of disease and despair populated by hopeless characters that make you doubt that there is any redemption for the human race. How do these people become this way? How do they live withLove be a motherfucker. Uh huh. And there's no love that hurts worse than Junkie Love, which is the title of Joe Clifford's novel/memoir (you'll have to read Clifford's opening "Note From The Author" and decide which it is for yourself). But yeah, that twisted sickening shit every junkie does to try and keep (read: hold hostage, kidnap, bribe, or just submit to) the love of their lives it's crazy, sad, improbable, and insane. Yet when you're in the middle of it you can't see any of that only
Junkie LoveJoe CliffordNote: If you have the chance read the second edition published in September of 2018.Cliffords memoir Junkie Love is a gritty raw no holds barred look at his journey through addiction. Beginning in his early twenties where following his dreams of art and music led him to San Francisco where began his junket to addiction and ended when at his lowest point after being a homeless junkie he attempted suicide before reaching to find what he needed to make a new start.The
I'd feel less guilty for liking this book so much were it not true. Two sittings were all it took, pages humming by. Some passages are matter-of-fact, while others are more fanciful literary flights (I'll let you guess which are about scrapping for dope versus shooting it). It's an apt title, as Clifford often equates or conflates his heroin highs with those of female affections any given week. Some protagonists frustrate me with their endless failings to do the right thing until it's too late
JUNKIE LOVE will be a book that will stick with me forever. I read a book, when I was much younger, called GO ASK ALICE. I never forgot that book, until I read Clifford's book. This book cuts deep because we all have that romantic interest in living Kerouac's life and living for the moment. JUNKIE LOVE does not glamorize life on the street and looking for that next fix. Honestly, it gripped my heart and would not let go. Do not get me wrong, Clifford can write and keep you mesmerized with his
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Absolutely riveting. Highly recommending this to everyone!
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