Permanent Midnight: A Memoir by Jerry Stahl (.ePUB)
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Permanent Midnight: A Memoir (20th Anniversary Edition) by Jerry Stahl
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Overview: His byline appeared everywhere, from L.A. Style to the Village Voice, from Esquire to Hustler. He penned scripts for twisted cult classics like Cafe Flesh and Dr. Caligari. He banged out shows for TV mega-hits like Moonlighting, Twin Peaks, and thirtysomething. But even when Jerry Stahl was making five grand a week, he was shooting six. Careening from his luxury home to L.A.’s more hellacious neighborhoods, he financed a heroin habit that brought on the soothing hiss of oblivion, while it stole his health and smashed his career. Until in a private apocalypse straight out of Day of the Locust, Jerry Stahl kicked smack and emerged clean.
A searing, strung-out confessional in the lineage of Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, and Hubert Selby Jr., Permanent Midnight chronicles one man’s slide into the opiated abyss and his claw-marked ascent back into the light–heralding the return of the Urban Hipster to contemporary literature, infused with savage humor and relentless intensity.
In 1998, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Maria Bello starred in a film version of Permanent Midnight to much acclaim. Nic Sheff, author of Tweak, writes the introduction to this edition.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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