Permanent Midnight: A Memoir

Permanent Midnight: A Memoir
by Jerry Stahl

Permanent Midnight: A Memoir
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Author: Jerry Stahl
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-01
ISBN: 0976082209
Number of pages: 380
Publisher: Process

Book Reviews of Permanent Midnight: A Memoir

Book Review: Beautiful Loser Is Right
Summary: 5 Stars

The reader who began his review with the header Beautiful Loser was spot on. Of course, this book has plenty of the scandalous details about hepatitis C, vomiting, blood, nodding and assorted weirdness. But the real strength of the book is the consistently poignant way in which Stahl describes his feeling of absolute alienation from everything. These passages are touching, accurate, moving and eloquent. For a slightly less eloquent version of the exact same terrain of alienation as seen through addiction, try Dee Dee Ramone's autobiography.

Summary of Permanent Midnight: A Memoir

"An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A remarkable book that will be of great value to people who feel isolated, alienated and overwhelmed by the circumstances of their lives."-Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn

"[Stahl] is a better-than-Burroughs virtuoso."-Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker

"Original, appalling, indelible picture of a man trying to swim and drown at the same time. Stahl has nerve, heart, a language of his own and a ghastly, riotous humor."-Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy's Life

"Permanent Midnight is one of the most harrowing and toughest accounts ever written in this century about what it means to be a junkie in America, making Burroughs look dated and Kerouac appear as the nose-thumbing adolescent he was."-Booklist

A searing confessional infused with the darkest humor, Permanent Midnight chronicles the opiated abyss of a Hollywood screenwriter and his formidable climb into sobriety.

Made into a major motion picture starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, Permanent Midnight is revered by critics and an ever-growing cult of devoted readers as one of the most compelling contemporary memoirs.

Jerry Stahl was born in Pittsburgh. He is author of the novels Perv: A Love Story, Plainclothes Naked and I, Fatty, the paperback edition of which will appear in 2005. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

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