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let's make a list of druggie novels. not just ones mentioning drugs, there's already a chart, but ones like picrel that wallow in filth and raw chavvery. can also be about alcoholics.
also lowlife lit general
from the top of my head, i can name Welsh, Burroughs, that guyvthat wrote Basketball Diaries, and some russian writers that never got translated

>> No.18335360

Call of the Crocodile for alcoholism.

>> No.18335385

>>18335360
kekk
i do hope Gardner doesnt drink too much.

>> No.18335490

>>18335360
Lmao. That book actually does deal with alcoholism.

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>A self-lacerating drugs memoir of ‘darkly angelic prose’ recalls Self’s heroin addiction in the 1980s.

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Drood by Dan Simmons. Wilkie Collins is an opium eater. Good book too.

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>>18335355
Good thread OP

Australia's contributions to this genre,
Praise by Andrew McGahan
Candy by Luke Davies

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>>18335862
have you read it? looks cool