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Author: Trocchi, Alexander
Title: Cain's Book
Publisher: Grove, New York
Pages: 252 pp.
Date: 1960
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Heroin; Life styles
Annotation:A fictionalized autobiography of a drug addict living on a houseboat in New York, whose addiction is a way of life—one that becomes more manageable for him than marriage, which he abandons for heroin.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.


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