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Title: Drugstore Cowboy
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Novel
ISBN-10: 038530224X
EAN: 9780385302241
ISBN: 9780385302241
Publisher: Penguin Random House (Pty) Ltd
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 01/12/1990
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: ZA
Item Height: 226mm
Item Length: 153mm
Item Width: 12mm
Item Weight: 244g
Author: James Fogle
Genre: Fiction
Release Year: 1990
Description: The novel that inspired the major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant

Bob Hughes, the offbeat, edgy, and slightly skewed leader of a crew of traveling junkies, describes himself as “one of the cleverest and ringiest and most notorious dope fiend drugstore cowboys on the entire West Coast, including Alaska.” Bob, his wife, Diane, Rick, and Nadine have a penchant for robbing drugstores and grabbing pills and capsules to support their habit and relieve their boredom.
 
It’s an all-too-real examination of the addict’s domain: the euphoria, the paranoia, the busts, the overdoses, the haunting reality of trying to survive your own world. But James Fogle—who based this extraordinary novel on his own experiences, and who spent thirty-five years of his life in prison—has turned their lives into something darkly comic.
 
Set in Portland, Oregon, in the early 1970s, Drugstore Cowboy is a resonating evocation of life at the bottom, and yet, by portraying his characters without judgment or glamor, Fogle has illuminated them. His debut novel is a singular work of contemporary fiction.

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