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A roman a clef, it details the life of joe necchi, a heroin addict and writer, who is living and working on a scow on the hudson river in new york. Aug 08, 2003 alexander trocchi was the smackaddled icon of beat literature, whose writings have been eclipsed by a lurid life of porn, pimping and dissolution in new york, paris and london. The font is named after the scottish novelist alexander trocchi. The prose seemed to affirm at every turn the presence of someone who, besides knowing how to write, fundamentally understood and articulated what literature is. Aug 04, 2014 foreword to cains book by alexander trocchi 1993 alexander trocchi was a legendary figure in his lifetime. Alexander trocchi was a prolific writer of novels and essays, of porn for the olympia press in paris, a magazine editor and bookseller, and one of the few scottish writers who wrote in the beat tradition of the 1950s and 60s.
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Please see the supplementary resources provided below for other helpful content related to this book. At various points in his life he was a straighta student, a pig farmer, a family man, a pimp, a heroin addict, a pornographer, a dealer in antique books. A heroin addict, he is best known for cains book, an autobiographical account of his sexual misadventures and drug. Trocchis final and most feted work apart from the oddsandends poetry shambles, man at leisure, also republished by alma classics, is a fragmented and not entirely unpretentious novelofsorts that seems to be more of a deeply psychological exploration of the authors uncompromising outsiders worldview than any sort of seminal drug novel as labelled by most, including burroughs. Alexander trocchi 192584 was a controversial scottish novelist of the beat generation. He was born in 1925 in glasgow, the son of an italian father. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Buy white thighs blast books by alexander trocchi, trocchi online at alibris. Author alexander trocchi s muse was drugsbut in this novel, he does not romanticize the source of his inspiration.
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