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How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z Paperback - 2000

by Ann Marlowe

In this hypnotic and piercingly intelligent chronicle, Ann Marlowe dissects her former heroin habit and recounts in harrowing detail the rigors and realities of life under the influence, while building a Wall Street career and a reputation as a critic.

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Ann Marlowe is a New York writer and critic who has written on music, books, and culture for The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Artforum, and Bookforum.  She lives in New York City.

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When I was six or seven, a Chanukah gift for me arrived in the mail.

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How to Stop Time is an important contemporary contribution to the classic accounts of the seductive attractions and dangerous distractions of drug use.
In this hypnotic and piercingly intelligent chronicle, Ann Marlowe dissects her former heroin habit, and recounts in harrowing detail the rigors and realities of life under the influence while building a successful Wall Street career and establishing a reputation as a critic in the alternative press. A one-time Harvard grad student in philosophy, Marlowe ruthlessly examines the paradoxical nature of addiction, and connects her own experience to a wider discussion of heroin in the context of our post-consumer, digital society.

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  • Title How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z
  • Author Ann Marlowe
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A
  • Date November 7, 2000
  • ISBN 9780385720168 / 0385720165
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.54 x 5.56 x 0.69 in (21.69 x 14.12 x 1.75 cm)
  • Reading level 1160
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Heroin abuse
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00038980
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.293

Media reviews

"A very impressive book, all the more so because of its remarkable calm and
restraint after such a terrifying experience." -Penelope Fitzgearld

"Ann Marlowe is a. . .relentless moral essayist and a secret poet. Her book burns as it goes down one's craw, and it keeps burning in memory." --Luc Sante

"A self-portrait of a coolly cantankerous woman, reformed but unrepentant."--The New York Times

"The little black dress of dope books. Smart, sleek and savagely subtle, Ms. Marlowe is the most gifted druggie to pop out of Harvard since the late Timothy Leary."--Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight

"A self-portrait of a coolly cantankerous woman, reformed but unrepentant." --The New York Times

Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 11/24/2000, Page 75
  • New York Times, 02/11/2001, Page 32

About the author

Ann Marlowe is a New York writer and critic who has written on music, books, and culture for The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Artforum, and Bookforum. She lives in New York City.

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