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FOREWORD BY TOM McCARTHY
INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD SEAVER
Written in America while Trocchi was working on a scow on the Hudson River, Cain’s Book is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a junky’s life, and an honest, raunchy, eye-opening trip through hell.
Probably the most famous novel about drug addiction and the hazards and excitements of an addict’s life after Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, this modern classic – which was prosecuted in Britain for obscenity in 1965 – still shocks in its frankness and is relevant to this day.
Part of Calder Publications imprint
REVIEWS
Mr Trocchi’s ideas (or, rather, his gropings toward the distant glow of ideas) are set down in prose that is always clean and sharp and often ferociously alive with poetry.
The New Yorker
It is different from other books, it is true, it has art, it is brave.
Norman Mailer
A fresh opportunity for readers to discover the writing of one of Scotland’s best writers of the twentieth century.
Sean Sheehan
Scottish Left Review
