REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

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by Hubert Selby Jr (1979)

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Heroin is like the sun and Harry, Tyrone, and Marion can feel themselves being pulled around in its gravitational orbit. Best mates, Harry and Tyrone score the smack. Lovers, Harry and Marion make grand plans for a shared future. The trio shoot up together until Tyrone meets Alice and that makes four. But when the streets run dry and a small taste becomes hard to find, desperation and selfishness creep in. Ordinary relations become abstract notions, and the only unifying element is the constant and growing need to get heroin into those hungry veins. The cost of scoring might be one’s dignity or integrity, or one’s own freedom, or one’s arm. But once the sickness starts to come on, you’ll do anything to keep it at bay for another night. Fiction. 229 pages.

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DETAILS:

Title: Requiem for a dream

Year: 1979

Author: Hubert Selby Jr

Pages: 229

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Book review by Keith Salter