false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190643123m/1941596.jpg 1941596 1 The author is cynical and vain; the book is autobiographical. The story of a misogynist with Amiri Baraka for a roommate who drinks and fights his way out of the life of the woman downstairs. The narrative ignores the rules of reality and supplants them with the rules of fiction, twisting according to memory more than time. Baraka acts as conduit for the supernatural and for wisdom into the cold, rash, alcoholic life of the narrator and protagonist, Abel. 1944200 1 7 2003 Bedford total:6|5:3|4:1|3:2| 6 25 6 1 5 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Dec 19 22:18:25 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 22:19:19 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Wed Nov 26 14:32:28 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 14:32:30 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sun Mar 09 18:28:42 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 18:28:56 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun Mar 09 17:08:09 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 17:08:09 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Mon Oct 15 15:33:23 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 15:33:23 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sun Sep 30 12:57:51 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 30 12:57:51 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1941596