Dopefiend, Gary Rodriguez
Dopefiend, Gary Rodriguez
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Dopefiend

Author: Gary Rodriguez, Donald Goines

Narrator: Kevin Kenerly

Unabridged: 6 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/15/2014


Synopsis

The shocking nightmare story of a black heroin addictTrapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend—both attractive, talented, and full of promise—are inexorably pulled into the living death of the hardcore junkie. It is a horrifying world where addicts will do anything to get their next fix. For twenty-three years of his young life, Donald Goines lived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the junkie. It started while he was doing military service in Korea and ended with his murder in his late thirties. He had worked up to a hundred-dollars-a-day habit—and out of the agonizing hell came Dopefiend.

About Donald Goines

Donald Goines (1936–1974) was a career criminal and addict who took up writing during one of his seven prison sentences. Between 1969 and 1974, he published sixteen novels, which are now recognized as almost unbearably authentic portraits of the roughest aspects of the black experience.

About Kevin Kenerly

Kevin Kenerly, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, earned a BA at Olivet College. A longtime member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he has acted in more than twenty seasons, playing dozens of roles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chilly on July 13, 2007

I thought I had pretty well exhausted all of the junkie novels out there: Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Nelson Algren, Herby Selby Jr., Iceberg Slim, Alister Crowley, Robert Bingham, James Folge et al, when I came across Goines in a NY Times article a few months ago. Apparently, his books are enjoying a r......more

Goodreads review by Adam on March 12, 2008

Dopefiend is a phenomenal, devastating book. It's far better than the three novels by Donald Goines that I've read up to this point. Never Die Alone was OK, but was too short and sketchy to have much of an impact, and the first two Kenyatta novels--which Goines wrote under his "Al C. Clark" pseudony......more


Quotes

“This classic title of 1970s street fiction has never been out of print owing to its gritty depiction of the realities of an addict’s lifestyle.” Library Journal