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Dope, duplicity, and violence fill this gasser of a novel from a protégé of William S. Burroughs
Set in the scorched cityscape of the Reagan-era Lower East Side of Manhattan, The Lotus Crew is Stewart Meyer’s harrowing yet humorous tale of loyalty and betrayal in the face of heroin addiction. Two street junkies, the introverted Alvira and the gregarious Tommy, team up to ...more
Set in the scorched cityscape of the Reagan-era Lower East Side of Manhattan, The Lotus Crew is Stewart Meyer’s harrowing yet humorous tale of loyalty and betrayal in the face of heroin addiction. Two street junkies, the introverted Alvira and the gregarious Tommy, team up to ...more
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ebook, 188 pages
Published
March 24th 2015
by Open Road Media
(first published 1984)
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A long time ago I used to write pulp novels for various publishers. Stewart wrote many too. We had some sort of dispute, I don't even remember what it was about, and I am no longer in touch with him. Almost 40 years have past, and I am an old man. I have two young kids.
Stewart was a stalwart friend of William Burroughs. Once I bought a first edition of "Junky" and Burroughs autographed it for me. I told Burroughs I paid a nickel for it at a street sale. Burroughs said "it is worth a lot more". S ...more
Stewart was a stalwart friend of William Burroughs. Once I bought a first edition of "Junky" and Burroughs autographed it for me. I told Burroughs I paid a nickel for it at a street sale. Burroughs said "it is worth a lot more". S ...more
This was a very eye opening read of the drug underworld of today! I would highly recommend it to everyone in our great country. It's one of the best reads I've had in a long time..
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Short and snappy, fast-paced story set on the rough and ready drug-fuelled streets of 80s New York. Gritty in places as you'd expect, but I felt like the author only just skimmed the surface of this murky insight into crime, greed and addiction. Lots of street slang to make it more believable, but there are definitely better books of a similar vein out there.
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I thought this would be great--considering the encomium by Burroughs senior (who the author in his hubris says "scratched the surface" as if his own writing went deeper) on the jacket, but overall, I was extremely disappointed.
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