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A legendary tattoo artist and notorious creator of trendsetting underground art, Jonathan Shaw captures the destructive addiction of love, sex, drugs, and demonic possession embodied in two people whose irresistible passions threaten to destroy them in this cult classic novel.
In the wild backwaters of Rio de Janeiro and New York, motorcycle-riding, nomadic outlaw poet Ignacio Valencia Lobos--known as Cigano--attempts in vain to curb the unhinged habits of his lover, Narcisa, a crack-smoking philosopher prostitute. Though he knows they will destroy each other, Narcisa is an exquisite poison he cannot resist. As they navigate the chaos of her downward spiral--dragged deeper by the gravity of drugs, burglaries, and violence, Cigano recounts a love affair doomed by insanity, dysfunction, and vice.
A genius epic of outlaw literature, Narcisa belongs among the works of such greats as Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Irvine Welsh, and Hunter S. Thompson.
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- Title Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes
- Author Jonathan Shaw
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised ed.
- Pages 624
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, N Y
- Date 2015-03
- ISBN 9780062354990 / 006235499X
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Love stories
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2015, Page 0
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