Product Overview
The true black voice of his generation, Donald Goines wrote novels that nailed the harsh realities of the urban experience deep into the psyche of todays hip hop culture, influencing major artists from Jay-Z and 50 Cent to Nas and Ghostface Killah.Dopefiendis his classic descent into the junkies harrowing nightmare
Teddy finally got the girl of his dreams. Together, Teddy and Terry filled people with admiration wherever they went. Young, gifted, and black, the future was theirs for the taking. But Teddy had a small little addiction. Then Terry had a taste. Then life took a wrong turn into the darkest, vilest back alleys. Drawing from years of his own addiction to heroin, Goines holds nothing back in this graphic, unflinching tale of lives destroyed by drugs. Each page tells it like it isthe whole truth and nothing but the truthwhich keeps you coming back for more.
Praise for Donald Goines and His Novels
Written from ground zero the voice of the ghetto itself. The Village Voice
He lived by the code of the streets. New Jersey Voice
