![]() ![]() Kristina’s poetry provides a shape to the story of her coming-of-age and addiction which uniquely suits it. Yup, that’s right: a series of books about substance abuse written in verse. ![]() Stylistically, the books have solved the problem of verisimilitude by adopting the brevity and untraditional style of Selby Jr’s work and combining it with the intimacy of a diary in the form of the narrator’s poetry. Twenty years later, readers could try on that life via Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting (1993) or Melvin Burgess’ Smack (1996), which was titled Junk in some countries.Īnother couple of decades afterwards and Ellen Hopkins’ trilogy (which launched in 2004) is the go-to series on the subject. Or Hubert Selby Jr’s Requiem for a Dream (1978), which considers a broader spectrum of addiction. ![]() In the 1970’s, kids might have turned to the anonymously penned Go Ask Alice (1971), which was billed as an actual diary, but was actually fiction. ![]()
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