Donald Goines | Literary Fiction

Dopefiend The Story Of A Black Junkie by Donald Goines

Name: Dopefiend The Story Of A Black Junkie by Donald Goines
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SKU: 0870674196
Price: 10.00 USD
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ISBN: 0870674196

Dopefiend The Story Of A Black Junkie by Donald Goines

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Book Specifications

Format: Mass market paperback
Condition: Acceptable
Publisher: Holloway House Publishing Co. (1971)
Length: 254 pages
Genre: Literary Fiction
ISBN: 0870674196
OCLC: 462221739

Condition Note: Acceptable Reading Copy: Complete and fully readable text. Notes: Library copy with markings and staamps present. Library pocket card attached to the inside front cover.

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A Young Detroit Couple Falls Prey to Heroin Addiction and a Sadistic Kingpin

Drawing directly from his own struggle with substance dependency and incarceration, Donald Goines shares a documentary-like portrait of urban devastation in Dopefiend: The Story of a Black Junkie. Published in 1971 by Holloway House, this landmark novel established Goines as a primary voice in Black pulp fiction, exposing the predatory mechanics and human toll of the heroin epidemic across 1970s Detroit.

Teddy is an ambitious young man whose drug experimentation rapidly hardens into a debilitating dependency. Terrified of losing his girlfriend Terry, a promising student with a bright future, Teddy coerces her into trying heroin so she will share his habit. Ensnared by withdrawal, the couple falls under the control of Porky, a sadistic, morbidly obese drug lord who operates a notorious neighborhood shooting gallery. Porky trades on their physical sickness, pitting desperate addicts against one another and driving Terry and Teddy into burglary, prostitution, and institutional ruin.

Why You’ll Love This Book

Donald Goines captures the grim economics of the drug trade with realism, authentic street dialogue, and tragic momentum. A seminal 1971 Holloway House classic, Dopefiend is a good read for collectors of vintage paperbacks, urban noir, and readers of Iceberg Slim's Pimp, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land, and Chester Himes.

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