{"product_id":"blueschild-baby-9780062913166","title":"Blueschild Baby","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA searing chronicle of the life of a young ex-convict and heroin addict in 1960's Harlem, an unsparing portrait of a man who couldn't free himself from the horrors of addiction \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlueschild Baby\u003c\/em\u003e takes place during the summer of 1967--the summer of race riots all across the nation; the Summer of Love in the Haight Ashbury; the summer of Marines dying near Con Thien, across the world in Vietnam--but the novel illuminates the contours of a more private hell: the angry desperation of a heroin addict who returns to his home in Harlem after being in prison. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1970, this frankly autobiographical novel was a revelation, a stunning depiction of a marginal figure, marked literally and figuratively by his drug addiction and navigating a predatory underground of junkies and hustlers--and named George Cain, like his author. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow with a new preface by acclaimed writer Leslie Jamison, this is an unvarnished conjuring of the tyranny of dependence: its desperation, its degradation, its rage and rebellion; the fragile, unsettled, occasional shards of hope it permits; the strange joys of being alive and young and lost and hooked and full of feverish determination anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cain, George\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062913166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.50d","brand":"George Cain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32745559916619,"sku":"9780062913166","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_259842ff-3f11-43d8-913c-42965460678a.jpg?v=1597703803","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/blueschild-baby-9780062913166","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}