Dope in the Age of Innocence - Couverture souple

Enright, Damien

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1907593012 ISBN 13 : 9781907593017

Editeur : Liberties Press Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Enright Damien

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

High adventure. A driving narrative and journeys of the heart and mind. Beautifully written. Nobody has captured the highs and heartbreak of the early dope days as well as Damien Enright. Compulsive reading. A classic. -- (Peter Nichols, author of Voyage for Madmen) 'Damien Enright has written a romantic memoir; it is not short on sex, it is rackety with psychedelic drugs, and it is innocent, too, thanks to the author's faith - if not quite fidelity - in love and his belief in the art of words. Damien has produced the only accurate description I have come across of Ibiza in the 1960s, when the world was till vast, and to explore it was an adventure' --Irma Kurtz, Cosmopolitan columnist

The book catches well the atmosphere of [those] pioneering days of drug taking in Europe and, although billed as a parable on the danger of drugs, at times reads like a thriller. *Good Design --Books Ireland

At the core of Enright s achievement is his ability to inhabit the character of his younger self, the aspect of memoir that often proves the most elusive...the story plays out as the authentic stream of consciousness of a 25-year-old, surfing the present moment towards a future of infinite possibility...[before] his slow awakening from innocence generates a powerfully affecting conclusion. --Mike Jay - nthposition.com

...brilliantly depicted ... really captures the weirdness and odd beauty, the sense of something almost sanctified [on Enright's description of taking acid] --Darragh McManus - Irish Independent

A hell of a good read. --Seán Moncrieff

Présentation de l'éditeur

Ibiza, 1960: on the beautiful Mediterranean island, the high-rise resorts are still decades away. By chance, Damien Enright, twenty-one-years old and Irish, arrives there with his wife and two children and finds a handful of down-at-heel foreign Bohemians leading wild, hedonistic lives. He and his wife get involved; their marriage quickly breaks down and he spends two heartbroken years in London before returning to Ibiza with a new partner and another child. They take LSD and inspired by dreams of a brave new world cross to the remote island of Formentera to lead 'alternative' lives. This is a decade before Howard Marks became 'Mr. Nice': the embryonic drug culture in the west is motivated not by profit but by idealism. Sometimes, the search for 'freedom' ventures not just beyond the mind but beyond the law. To sustain their families on Formentera, Enright and two desperado pals head to London in a beat-up car and do some risky travellers cheque scams. Then, restless and unsure of his love for his partner, he makes a hair-raising trek to Turkey in the depths of winter to find hashish for the group. Things go badly wrong and he find himself a fugitive, at the mercy of unreliable friends. This is road story, drug story, love story a parable about drug 'enlightenment' and the loss and rediscovery of love.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liberties Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1907593012
• ISBN 13: 9781907593017
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible