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" Requiem for a dream : "
by Hubert Selby, Jr. ; [forewords by Darren Aronofsky and Richard Price]
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BL
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| Record Number
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696183
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b518372
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| Main Entry
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Selby, Hubert
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| Title & Author
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Requiem for a dream : : a novel /\ by Hubert Selby, Jr. ; [forewords by Darren Aronofsky and Richard Price]
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Thunder's Mouth Press ;[St. Paul, Minn.] :: Distributed by Publishers Group West,, c2000
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vii, 279 p. ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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1560252480
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| Abstract
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This book is about four individuals who pursued the American Dream. In this searing novel, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of uncut heroin and getting rich. But their heroin habit gets the better of them, consumes them and destroys their dreams and Harry's mother's addiction to diet pills lands her in a state mental hospital
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Drug abuse, Fiction
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Drug addicts, Fiction
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Mothers and sons, Fiction
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Coney Island (New York, N.Y.), Fiction
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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| LC Classification
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PS3569.E547R4 2000
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