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The Farm
Overview
"One of the most exciting literary revival series since the rediscovery of Jim Thompson's novels" (Playboy), Old School Books "is subtly transforming the landscape of post war black fiction" (Bomb). "So much of what we know of ourselves is a lousy God Damn lie," maintains the narrator of The Farm (1968), the audacious and supercharged final novel by a writer of both prodigal gifts and tendencies toward self destruction. The Farm is a Dante esque tour of the levels of hell to be found in a federal drug rehabilitation center and a powerful story of love growing in the most unnatural conditions. It is a stylistic tour de force and one of the most honest and unrelenting novels dealing with drug addiction ever written.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780393317855
- ISBN-10: 0393317854
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: July 1998
- Dimensions: 8.23 x 5.53 x 0.61 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.63 pounds
- Page Count: 240
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