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Summary: Get It
Review: This is a genuinely original and brilliant book. Though its foreground subject is heroin, the book meditates superbly on American life and culture in the present. It's a map to America as a well as a map to drugs. The prose is exquisite.
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Summary: Read It Now
Review: This is what became of you ! I had wondered over the years since Cambridge, since New York when you had your little business, and you moved from Philosophy to Money........I had not suspected you had made this journey too. I confess to being under-whelmed, unimpressed, and disappointed. In those days of Radcliffe you seemed to want to be incandescent and burned many around you; but in the end it was yourself you seared as you threw away potential and capability for whatever was vogue in the immediate. I hope you find satisfaction in your current role, you produce good prose, but you should consider content and not just form.An expensive, quality education which should have taught you to think, instead made you insecure and hovering on the borderline -I hope your brother avoided your mistakes. It is sad Ann, sad that you at last gain the recognition you wanted, but for this ! Not for what your mind could have produced, but how you deadened it, for what your failure made you do - a failure which did not require Harvard Yard or the fat of the land - or do you feel yourself another Coleridge ? So Ann, I popped up to say Hello after many years. I often wondered what had happened to you after I last met Jay......I am really saddened by this story - I hope you have gained some insight and perhaps an ounce of human compassion.
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