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Dopefiend (origineel 1971; editie 2021)

door Donald Goines (Auteur)

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The shocking nightmare story of a black heroin addictTrapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend-both attractive, talented, and full of promise-are inexorably pulled into the living death of the hardcore junkie. It is a horrifying world where addicts will do anything to get their next fix.For twenty-three years of his young life, Donald Goines lived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the junkie. It started while he was doing military service in Korea and ended with his murder in his late thirties. He had worked up to a hundred-dollars-a-day habit-and out of the agonizing hell came Dopefiend.… (meer)

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Lid:	Ignatius777
Titel:	Dopefiend
Auteurs:	Donald Goines (Auteur)
Info:	Holloway House Publishing Company (2021), 336 pages
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Dopefiend door Donald Goines (1971)

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Goines wrote this in prison, and it is an amazing immersion in a world of addicts who will do anything for their next fix--and I do mean anything, since Porky, the dealer, is a cruel and imaginative sort. The story follows Teddy, who is pretty worthless from the start, and will steal from his own family if needed, and Terry, his beautiful girlfriend whom he has grubbed off of and now has addicted to heroin. Will either survive? Because this is told in the third person, the reader has no assurance that the narrator will survive. I highly recommend this if you have a tolerance for some of the most disgusting, but well-written, fiction you have ever experienced. This goes straight for the gut and succeeds almost totally, with barely a false note.

Excellent narration by Kevin Kenerly makes the story come alive. (

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Another great read by Donald Goines! (

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JerseyGirl21 | Jan 24, 2016 |

For twenty-three years of his life Donald Goinse lived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the junkie. It started while he was doing military service in Korea and ended with his murder at the age of thirty nine. He had worked up to a hundred dollars a day habit and out of the agonizing hell came Dopefiend! It is the shocking nightmare story of a black heroin addict. Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend- both handsome, talented, and full of promise- are inexorably pulled into death of the hardcore junkie!

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The shocking nightmare story of a black heroin addictTrapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend-both attractive, talented, and full of promise-are inexorably pulled into the living death of the hardcore junkie. It is a horrifying world where addicts will do anything to get their next fix.For twenty-three years of his young life, Donald Goines lived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the junkie. It started while he was doing military service in Korea and ended with his murder in his late thirties. He had worked up to a hundred-dollars-a-day habit-and out of the agonizing hell came Dopefiend.

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