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Junkie Love

Joe Clifford

Start date: November 12, 2018

Finish date: December 14, 2018

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Junkie Love was originally published by Battered Suitcase in 2013, and a new edition was recently released.

This book is billed as a hardboiled novel, but it’s really an autobiography. As Tim O’Brien wrote, “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”

It is set in San Francisco in the late 1990s and early aughts, and like the SF in Hammett’s novels, Junkie Love captures a time ...more

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