Ebook {Epub PDF} Cains Book by Alexander Trocchi

Written in America while Trocchi was working on a scow on the Hudson River, Cain’s Book is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a junky’s life, /5(32). Cain’s Book first published in US by Grove Atlantic in First published in Great Britain by John Calder (Publishers) in © Alexander Trocchi © Sally Childs This new edition first published by Oneworld Classics Ltd in Foreword © Tom McCarthy Introduction © Richard Seaver, Notes © Oneworld Classics, Cain's Book is Trocchi's self-reflexive look at his life as a junky. The introduction's for my copy, by Greil Marcus and Richard Seaver, are two of the most dismissive, pessimistic book intros I've www.doorway.ru by:

Cain's Book has ratings and 33 reviews. MJ said: Trocchi's final and most fêted work (apart from the odds-and-ends poetry shambles, Man at Leisure, a. So begins Cain's Book, Alexander Trocchi's incredible novel of existential dread. Young Adam, its predecessor, is better known, but the latter is. "Cain's Book is a treasure."--Ken Kesey "It is true, it has art, it is brave."--Norman Mailer "Alexander Trocchi was a major figure in cosmopolitan new-consciousness fifties' and sixties' literature, and Cain's Book is his signal novel."--Allen Ginsberg. Written in America while Trocchi was working on a scow on the Hudson River, Cain's Book is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a junky's life, and an honest, raunchy, eye-opening trip through hell. Probably the most famous novel about.

Cain's Book Quotes Showing of 2 “It provides the police with something to do, and as junkies and potheads are relatively easy to apprehend because they have to take so many chances to get hold of their drugs, a heroic police can make spectacular arrests, lawyers can do a brisk business, judges can make speeches, the big pedlars can make a fortune, the tabloids can sell millions of copies. Cain’s Book: A commentary on the silence that followed Old favourites: Alexander Trocchi’s pages drift past, monotonous and stark and radiant Sat, Jun 8, , Scottish-born Alexander Trocchi’s Cain’s Book (Grove Press, ), the second of his only two literary productions (a third work, Helen and Desire, was written to order and published by Olympia, the erotic press), is a good example.