This is a book I have been meaning to read for a long time. It is post beat style writing, and like much of the work of the Beat Generation also about New York City, drugs and loss. It is about the City, and pointless jobs and more loss. The writing style was mostly in the second person. It was interesting to read. I heard Mark Twight compare one of the essays he wrote about some mountaineering trip to the style of this novel. It makes sense now. I got a staff copy for free from Vintage Books and now refuse to part with it. It is a super quick read, well written and laugh out loud funny (if you have a dark sense of humor). I believe the commentary inside called it a 'modern classic' or the like. I entirely agree.
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