The Cocaine Chronicles

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Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon
Akashic Books, 2005 - Fiction - 269 pages

Nothing to snort at, this ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Phillips and Tervalon. Cocaine, that most troubling and fascinating of substances is the subject, the subtext, the whys and whereofs in "The Cocaine Chronicles," a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. "The Cocaine Chronicles" contains tough tales by a cross-section of today's most thought-provoking writers.

Contributors: Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Emory Holmes II, James Brown, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, Kerry E. West, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and Detrice Jones.

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Contents

ΙΟ introduction
11
the crack cocaine diet
26
white irish
40
Copyright

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Other editions - View all

The Cocaine Chronicles
Gary Phillips,Jervey Tervalon
Limited preview - 2012
The Cocaine Chronicles
Gary Phillips,Jervey Tervalon
No preview available - 2015
The Cocaine Chronicles
Gary Phillips,Jervey Tervalon
No preview available - 2011

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About the author (2005)

Jervey Tervalon is an award winning poet, screenwriter and dramatist. His debut novel Understand This, won the 1994 New Voices Award from the Quality Paperback Book Club. He has contributed to The Los Angeles Times, Details and other publications. He lives in California with his wife and child and teaches creative writing at California State University at Los Angeles.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Cocaine Chronicles
Akashic Drug Chronicles Series
EditorsGary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon
Editionillustrated
PublisherAkashic Books, 2005
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized30 May 2008
ISBN1888451750, 9781888451757
Length269 pages
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Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors)
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
  
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