Down and Out on Murder Mile

Zusatztext "Finishing DOWN AND OUT ON MURDER MILE hurts. O'Neill paints a vividly original picture of addiction and recovery that made my veins thirst and my heart worry." Informationen zum Autor Tony O'Neill is the author of Digging the Vein and Down and Out on Murder Mile , and the coauthor of Neon Angel and the New York Times bestseller Hero of the Underground . He lives in New York with his wife and daughter. Klappentext After exhausting their resources in the slums of Los Angeles, a junkie and his wife settle in London's "murder mile," the city's most violent and criminally corrupt section. Persevering past failed treatments, persistent temptation, urban ennui, and his wife's ruinous death wish, the nameless narrator fights to reclaim his life. In prose that could peel paint from a car, Tony O'Neill re-creates the painfully comic, often tragic days of a recovering heroin addict. Zusammenfassung After exhausting their resources in the slums of Los Angeles! a junkie and his wife settle in London's "murder mile!" the city's most violent and criminally corrupt section. Persevering past failed treatments! persistent temptation! urban ennui! and his wife's ruinous death wish! the nameless narrator fights to reclaim his life. In prose that could peel paint from a car! Tony O'Neill re-creates the painfully comic! often tragic days of a recovering heroin addict.

Product details

• Authors: O&apos, Tony Neill, Tony O'Neill
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 28.10.2008
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy
• EAN: 9780061582868
• ISBN: 978-0-06-158286-8
• Pages: 288
• Dimensions (packing): 11.5 x 22.8 x 2 cm
• Series: P.S.
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