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| Title | : | Permanent Midnight |
| Author | : | Jerry Stahl |
| Book Format | : | Trade Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 371 pages |
| Published | : | June 2005 by Process |
| Categories | : | Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography |
Jerry Stahl
Trade Paperback | Pages: 371 pages Rating: 3.95 | 1715 Users | 132 Reviews
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His byline appeared everywhere, from L.A. Style to the Village Voice, from Esquire to Hustler. He penned scripts for twisted cult classics like Cafe Flesh and Dr. Caligari. He banged out shows for TV mega-hits like Moonlighting, Twin Peaks, and thirtysomething. But even when Jerry Stahl was making five grand a week, he was shooting six. Careening from his luxury home to L.A.'s more hellacious neighborhoods, he financed a heroin habit that brought on the soothing hiss of oblivion, while it stole his health and smashed his career. Until in a private apocalypse straight out of Day of the Locust, Jerry Stahl kicked smack and emerged clean.A searing, strung-out confessional in the lineage of Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, and Hubert Selby Jr., PERMANENT MIDNIGHT chronicles one man's slide into the opiated abyss and his claw-marked ascent back into the light--heralding the return of the Urban Hipster to contemporary literature, infused with savage humor and relentless intensity.
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| Original Title: | Permanent Midnight: A Memoir |
| ISBN: | 0976082209 (ISBN13: 9780976082200) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 1715 Users | 132 ReviewsComment On Of Books Permanent Midnight
This book left me cold a number of times. I know exactly why. I know what the pain point is. I had a father with terminal alcoholism (that's what I call it now. Like terminal cancer. But not. Terminal addiction, instead). And the passages about loving his daughter was when my attitude to the book took a turn. Gasoline on embers. The persistent problem of an unwillingness to understand, or an inability to; empathizing instead with grimaces, set jaws, gritted teeth, the psychological braceI'm not sure why I'm continuously drawn to books by and about junkies but here's another one to add to the list. Jerry Stahl's memoir "Permanent Midnight" is a tragicomic tale of addiction. His story takes place in Hollywood in the 1980's and 90's. His career has gone from writing pornography for Hustler magazine to writing episodes of ALF, Moonlighting and thirtysomething. It seems that the more out-of-control his heroin habit becomes, the more he is in demand. Until it all crashes down around
I hail Jerry as the next William Burroughs.I wanted to place a few quotes here but found that I would pretty much be listing most of the novel!Jerry's book Bad Sex on Speed led me to this memoir. He talked of being a junkie too well and was kind of relieved to find out he had been one. I held onto this book; dragged it out like the perfect night or last beer.Jerry was a script writer for the famous 80s tv shows Moonlighting and Alf. He did drugs so he could cope with work; a first for me in a
Another disturbing tale about drug abuse along the lines of Requiem for a Dream and Trainspotting. This was a fun read for such a dark subject, the author had a pretty good sense of humor and it comes through in his writing. Plus it was interesting to read about heroin addiction in someone who was a quasi celebrity and had tons of money.Heroin, don't do it!
This book captures the love affair an addict has with drugs. This book oozes love -- no matter what Stahl says about how ugly it was, he was in love with it and you can hear how lovingly he describes his awful behavior. He remembers every last detail as if he kept a scrapbook. As if he loves it still, the glamor (in the old-fashioned sense of having a spell put on you) of the powerlessness and the high. He was making a lot of money, which lessened the dangerous aspects of being a junkie. He was
It's A Million Little Pieces, but true.Two things prevented it from being five stars for me. 1) His narrative voice wears a little thin for me. There's a little too much humor in his continued descent into junkie-dom. There are several opportunities to get clean that Stahl misses, and I thought he was a little too glib about them.There is also his continuous antipathy for the entertainment industry that pays for his drug habit. He mentions that his television writing work is so mind-numbing that
Passages of this book were amazing. Funny, Sad, brainless and thoughtful, all at the same time. But...This book didn't go anywhere. I really had no idea where Jerry had got to by the end of it. I suspected that he hadn't really got anywhere. It felt like it was written as a step on his journey towards recovery. But we weren't told that.Instead we get description of trip after trip. Often lovingly described. It reminded me of William S. Burroughs book Junk, in that it was full of self-delusion
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