Playing Chicken With Thanatos
Book Details
Author(s)DÃre McCain
PublisherApophenia
ISBN / ASIN0615903150
ISBN-139780615903156
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,328,056
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
The long-awaited debut book from DÃre McCain, editor of Paraphilia Magazine.
Playing Chicken With Thanatos tells a hard-hitting yet sympathetic tale of a precocious forgotten child who sought refuge in self-annihilation, and ultimately had to choose between doom and survival.
Set primarily in Southern California in the 1980s and 90s, the narrator takes you headlong on an intensely revealing and turbulent odyssey through the abysses of madness and junkiedom to the peaks of liberation and personal evolution.
Born from the author’s harrowing formative experiences, Playing Chicken With Thanatos transcends autobiography, evades the niche of vicarious voyeurism, and reaches out an empathetic, nonjudgmental hand to anyone who’s ever teetered over that ineffable precipice.
“DÃre McCain has given us a mesmerizing, startling, lyrical addition not just to the literature of drugs and madness, but to literature itself.†— Nick Tosches
Playing Chicken With Thanatos tells a hard-hitting yet sympathetic tale of a precocious forgotten child who sought refuge in self-annihilation, and ultimately had to choose between doom and survival.
Set primarily in Southern California in the 1980s and 90s, the narrator takes you headlong on an intensely revealing and turbulent odyssey through the abysses of madness and junkiedom to the peaks of liberation and personal evolution.
Born from the author’s harrowing formative experiences, Playing Chicken With Thanatos transcends autobiography, evades the niche of vicarious voyeurism, and reaches out an empathetic, nonjudgmental hand to anyone who’s ever teetered over that ineffable precipice.
“DÃre McCain has given us a mesmerizing, startling, lyrical addition not just to the literature of drugs and madness, but to literature itself.†— Nick Tosches
