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Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages

Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael LargoPublish date:2008-10-07Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:William Morrow & CompanyISBN-13:9780061466410ISBN-10:61466417UPC:9780061466410Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Reference, Historical, Entertainment & Performing ArtsSize:9.02 x 5.54 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCBPQH9JCB

What is the price of brilliance?

Why are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollack, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin, to Kurt Cobain, and on and on, authors and artists throughout history have binged, pill-popped, injected, or poisoned themselves for their art. Fully illustrated and addictively readable, Genius and Heroin is the indispensable reference to the untidy lives of our greatest artists and thinkers, entertainingly chronicling how the notoriously creative lived and died--whether their ultimate downfalls were the result of opiates, alcohol, pot, absinthe, or the slow-motion suicide of obsession.

Language:EnglishPublisher:William Morrow & CompanyISBN-13:9780061466410ISBN-10:61466417UPC:9780061466410Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Reference, Historical, Entertainment & Performing ArtsSize:9.02 x 5.54 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCBPQH9JCB
Largo, Michael: -

Michael Largo is the author of The Big, Bad Book of Beasts; God's Lunatics; Genius and Heroin; and the Bram Stoker Award-winning Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die, as well as three novels. He and his family live in Florida with their dog, two turtles, a parrot, two canaries, and a tank of fish.

Publisher: William Morrow & Company

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Michael Largo

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