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| Author: | Algren, Nelson |
| Title: | The Man with the Golden Arm |
| Publisher: | Doubleday, New York |
| Pages: | 343 pp. |
| Date: | 1949 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Heroin; Social problems |
| Annotation:Heroin addict Frankie Machine is a Purple Heart veteran who finds survival difficult in the drug subculture of post-war Chicago. Grim realism and stark descriptions of drug addiction. | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: negative. | |
| Author: | Baldwin, James |
| Title: | Another Country |
| Publisher: | Dial Press, New York |
| Pages: | 436 pp. |
| Date: | 1962 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Social problems |
| Annotation:A small group of acquaintances, white and black, roam the subcultures of Harlem, Greenwich Village and France in a series of social and sexual encounters which include drug experiences as a mode of normalcy. | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: negative. | |
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