Tales from the Geronimo: My Seduction by Junk and Desert Dreams

by Scott Frank

Book Overview

In the tradition of Junkie, a literary exploration of the pleasures and pains of heroin. Scott Frank, who spent the better part of a year chasing his own love among the shaded porticos of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802115721
• ISBN13: 9780802115720
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Everything you ever wanted to know about heroin - and more.

Scott Frank was "a boy who only wanted to dream." Marihuana didn't do the job, so he tried heroin. After a couple of years living as a junkie in a Tucson transient hotel (the Geronimo), he gave it up; and, twenty years later, published this slim and beautiful book of essays. Most of the heroin literature I've read goes from bad (morality plays) to worse (junkies who seem to get high mainly on their own coolness). _Tales_ does not pretend to be anything but a bunch of stories, but I found it taught me more than any of its didactic cousins. If you want to know why Coleridge was so fond of his laudanum, you need this book. If you're the parent of a bright and inquisitive adolescent, and you're looking for an honest and effective way to make sure your child never ever goes near this stuff, you need it even more. _Tales from the Geronimo_ will probably never make the Stanford freshman reading list, but it is a true classic.