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Blueschild Baby

A Novel

Blueschild Baby( )
Author: Cain, George
Introduction by: Jamison, Leslie
ISBN:978-0-06-291316-6
Publication Date:Mar 2019
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Ecco
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.99
Book Description:

A searing chronicle of the life of a young ex-convict and heroin addict in 1960's Harlem, an unsparing portrait of a man who couldn't free himself from the horrors of addiction  

Blueschild Baby takes place during the summer of 1967--the summer of race riots all across the nation; the Summer of Love in the Haight Ashbury; the summer of Marines dying near Con Thien, across the world in Vietnam--but the novel illuminates the contours of a more private hell: the angry...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Fiction / City Life
Fiction / African American & Black / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.31 x 8 x 0.5 Inches
Book Weight:0.38 Pounds
Author Biography
Cain, George (Author)
Leslie Jamison was born in Washington D.C. in 1983. She has worked as a baker, an office temp, an innkeeper, a tutor, and a medical actor. She is the author of The Gin Closet and The Empathy Exams: Essays. She is currently finishing a doctoral dissertation at Yale University about addiction narratives.

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