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Requiem for a dream / a novel by Hubert Selby Jr.
LIBRA - Special PS3569.E547 R4 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Selby, Hubert, Jr., 1928-2004.
- Series:
- Classic reprint series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug addicts--Fiction.
- Drug addicts.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Drug abuse--Fiction.
- Drug abuse.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Allegories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 279 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ; St. Paul, Minn. : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Consortium Book Sales, [1988]
- Summary:
- In this searing novel first published in 1978, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of heroin and getting rich. But their heroin habit gets the better of them, and Harry's mother's addiction to diet pills lands her in a state mental hospital.
- ISBN:
- 0938410571
- 9780938410577
- 0938410563
- 9780938410560
- OCLC:
- 16804009
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