Drugstore Cowboy

Häftad bok. Delta . 1st uppl. 1990.

Gott skick. Bob Hughes, the offbeat, edgy, and sighty skewed leader of a crew of traveling junkies, describes himself as "one of the cleverest and ringiest and most notorious dope fiend drugstore cowboys on the entire West Coast, including Alaska." Bob, his wife Diane, Rick, and Nadine have a penchant for robbing drugstores, grabbing pills and capsules to support
their habit and relieve their bore-dom. It's an all-too-real examination of the addicts domain: the eupho-ria, the paranoia, the busts, the overdoses, the haunting reality of trying to survive your own world. But James Fogle-who based this extraordinary novel on his own experiences , and who has spent thirty-five of his fifty-three years in prison-has turned their lives into something darkly comic.
Set in Portland, Oregon, in the early 1970's, Drugstore Cowboy is a resonating evocation of life at the bottom, and yet, by portraying his
characters without judgment or glamour, Fogle has illuminated them. His debut novel is a singular work of contemporary fiction.
Drugstore Cowboy is the basis of a highly acclaimed film directed by Gus Van Sant that was voted Best Film of 1989 by the National Society of Film Critics.
"The film rings deeply true."
—The New York Times
"Remarkable. A tough, funny film made with considerable verve and no small amount of guts."
—The Village Voice
"The wonder is that a movie this alert, this razor-funny and this compulsively watchable can be made without betraying its blitzed out characters. Somehow...director and co-writer Gus Van Sant has managed it."
—Los Angeles Times