{"product_id":"blueschild-baby-9780062913166b","title":"Blueschild Baby","description":"\u003cb\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\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlueschild Baby 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42819949658192,"sku":"9780062913166B","price":9.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780062913166-l.jpg?v=1785877947","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/blueschild-baby-9780062913166b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}