Dope Girls
The Birth Of The British Drug Underground
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ISBN-13:
9781862076181
Veröffentl:
2003
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2003
Seiten:
208
Autor:
Marek Kohn
Gewicht:
162 g
Format:
195x130x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
As entertaining as it is enlightening, "Dope Girls" vividly records the scandals and moral panics in Britain that followed the end of the First World War, as drug use--especially of morphine and cocaine--was transformed into a national menace. The cast of characters includes Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, whose highly publicized death from an overdose in 1918 fueled public anxiety; Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor; and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica--identified as the villains of the affair and invested with a highly charged sexual menace. Around them swirled a raffish group of seedy and rebellious hedonists. Britain was horrified and enthralled--the drug problem was born, amid a gush of exotic tabloid detail. A cult classic in Britain, "Dope Girls" remains both timely and instructive.
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