Jervey Tervalon is the author of five books, including the bestselling Dead Above Ground and Understand This, for which he won the New Voices Award from the Quality Paperback Book Club. He edited the anthology The Cocaine Chronicles. He was a Remsen Bird writer in residence at Occidental College and a Disney screenwriting fellow. He is the director of the Literature for Life project, an online literary magazine and salon, and the literary director of LitFest Pasadena. Born in New Orleans, he now lives in California and teaches at the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
This ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Phillips and Tervalon. Cocaine, that most troubling and fascinating of substances is the subject, the subtext, the whys and whereofs in Cocaine Chronicles, a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. Cocaine Chronicles contains tough tales by a cross-section of today's most thought-provoking writers.
In this bold anthology, we meet the casual sniffers, the heavy users, the dealers, the victims and the unsuspecting victims - hysterical romps, tragic characters and unfathomable lows - rendering cocaine a drug that is anything but glamorous. The Cocaine Chronicles is assembled in four sections that loosely dictate the varying degrees of addiction and the affects that cocaine has on its participants.
This is the best fiction anthology of cocaine-themed tales to blow through in years, featuring ALL NEW stories from Susan Straight, Lee Child, Jerry Stahl, Ken Bruen, Laura Lippman, Bill Moody, Nina Revoyr, and many more.
CONTENTS
Ten Keys - Lee Child
The Crack Cocaine Diet - Laura Lippman
White Irish - Ken Bruen
Beneficent Diversions from the Crackdkins Diet - Donnell Alexander
Poinciana - Susan Straight
The Screenwriter - James Brown
Twilight of the Stooges - Jerry Stahl
Chemistry - Robert Ward
Shame - Kerry E. West
Viki, Flash, and the Pied-Piper of Shoebies - Deborah Vankin
Golden Pacific - Nina Revoyr
Sentimental Value - Manuel Ramos
Just Surviving Another Day - Detrice Jones
A.K.A. Moises Rockafella - Emory Holmes II
Camaro Blue - Bill Moody
Serving Monster - Jervey Tervalon
Disco Zombies - Gary Phillips
Título : The Cocaine Chronicles
EAN : 9781842438510
Editorial : No Exit Press
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