

Dopefiend
Author: Gary Rodriguez, Donald Goines
Narrator: Kevin Kenerly
Unabridged: 6 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 02/15/2014
Categories: Fiction, African American & Black Fiction, Urban
Author: Gary Rodriguez, Donald Goines
Narrator: Kevin Kenerly
Unabridged: 6 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 02/15/2014
Categories: Fiction, African American & Black Fiction, Urban
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.
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.
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
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
“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