Genius and Heroin: Creativity and Reckless Abandon Through |
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| Authors: | Largo, Michael |
| Publisher: | William Morrow Paperbacks |
| BISAC/Subject: | SOC022000, HUM000000, PER015000, BIO006000 |
| ISBN: | 9780062043696, Related ISBNs: 0062043692, 9780061466410, 9780062043696 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 368, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
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.
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