false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173462627m/292365.jpg 292365 3 For twenty-three years of his life Donald Goines lived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the junkie. It started while he was doing military service in Korea and ended with his murder at the age of thirty-seven. He had worked up to a hundred-dollar-a-day habit--and out of the agonizing hell came <i>Dopefiend</i>! It is the shocking nightmare story of a black heroin addict. Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend--both handsome, talented, and full of promise--are inexorably pulled into the living death of the hardcore junkie! 283663 1971 Dopefiend total:148|5:70|4:46|3:23|2:6|1:3| 148 618 195 24 4 2 false false Fri Jul 13 19:17:41 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 19:17:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 11 09:32:22 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 10:50:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 07 09:27:05 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 12 15:28:37 -0700 2008 Dopefiend is a phenomenal, devastating book. It's far better than the three novels by Donald Goines that I've read up to this point. Never Die Alone was OK, but was too short and sketchy to have much of an impact, and the first two Kenyatta novels--which Goines wrote under his "Al C. Clark"...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Dec 14 05:02:49 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 05:03:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Feb 08 12:49:29 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 09 17:06:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 16 12:49:32 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 12:55:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 22 19:45:05 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 19:46:57 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Sep 24 08:18:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 08:19:44 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 1993 Tue May 26 18:54:13 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 18:56:36 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Thu Oct 18 19:57:35 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 22:25:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 24 02:32:52 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 02:33:57 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 12:10:45 -0800 2009 Mon Aug 03 11:13:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 09 11:51:58 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 21 18:09:30 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 18:11:07 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 29 01:03:27 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 29 01:03:27 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Dec 21 04:42:14 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 04:44:40 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Tue Nov 18 13:12:28 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 13:16:11 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 23 19:41:57 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 20:49:31 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jul 17 16:23:38 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 11:08:56 -0800 2009 5 0 true false Tue Jun 24 11:05:57 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 11:06:55 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Jan 07 06:56:39 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 07:20:04 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=292365