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Sabbag, Robert Smokescreen: A True Adventure
Canongate Books 2002 184195232X / 9781841952321 First UK edition-2nd printing Hardcover Very good Very good Book
VGC.Canongate Books,2002.First UK edition-2nd printing(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2).Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC.Illustrated with colour,b/w photos,maps.Nice and clean pages with two small marks,ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges,small nicks,crease and light shelf wear on the edges of the pages,small mark and light shelf wear on the first two pages of the book.The book is in VGC with light shelf wear.344pp including index.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph From Publishers Weekly: When Sabbag's Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade came out in 1998, cultural icons like Hunter S. Thompson, Robert Stone, Norman Mailer and Nora Ephron hailed it as a classic study of America's drug obsession; their endorsements helped it achieve both cult status and commercial success. Sabbag's latest, despite its strong narrative drive and flashy, occasionally psychedelic writing style, probably won't elicit the same response. For one thing, Sabbag's hero this time is no Zachary Swann, Snowblind's larger-than-life coke dealer: Allen Long is a would-be filmmaker, a child of middle-class respectability from Richmond, Va., who was born the year Harry S. Truman was elected to the American presidency, and was first arrested for marijuana possession the year Bob Dylan released Blonde on Blonde. For another, marijuana trafficking lacks the inherent drama of the cocaine trade. But most of all, there's the problem of historic distance, which Sabbag's writing fails to overcome. The book presents a story from out of a time and place fogged in not only by the passage of years, but by an atmospheric shift in the political and cultural spirit of a generation, Sabbag writes in his acknowledgments. Add to that unfortunate lines such as Like that of almost any man whose Christian name is a definite article, [dealer] El Coyote's image was simply that nobody really bought it, and readers are left with what feels like a message in a bottle from a place they left behind long ago. (Jan.)Forecast: With press junkets planned for the author and Long and a first serial excerpt going to Rolling Stone, this chronicle of crime and ingenuity should generate early hype. It's hard to imagine another round of blessings from the hip elite, though, for this rather disappointing follow-up to Sabbag's earlier success.
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