{"product_id":"9781936740321","title":"Drunken Angel: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlan Kaufman has been compared to Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Hubert Selby Jr., even Ernest Hemmingway—his life reads so much like a great movie that the world of cinema has just optioned his first memoir, \u003ci\u003eJew Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, for a feature film. \u003ci\u003eDrunken Angel,\u003c\/i\u003e his new autobiographical work, drops like a sledgehammer. It is the most gripping, chilling and inspiring account ever written of a life-long battle with alcoholism and the struggle to write. Graphic in its grit, an education in pain, \u003ci\u003eDrunken Angel\u003c\/i\u003e is being hailed as \"the Naked Lunch of memoirs.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book chronicles Kaufman’s headlong plunge into the piratical life of a literary drunk, and takes us shamelessly through noirish alleyways of S\u0026amp;M sensuality, forbidden pleasures and pitfalls of adultery, the thrilling horrors of war, plus raging poetry nights, mental illness, homelessness, literary struggle and his strange, magnificent rise into a sobriety of personal triumph as crazily improbable as the famous and notorious figures he meets along the way. Drunken Angel contains revealing portraits of such literary figures as Allen Ginsberg, Kathy Acker, Barney Rosset, Anthony Burgess, Elie Wiesel, Ron Kolm, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jim Feast, Bernard Malamud, Hubert Selby Jr., Bob Holman, Sapphire, not to speak of the gutter dreamers, Nuyorican Poets, Unbearables, Babarians, Slammers, Black foot Indians, commandos, criminals, junkies, renegade cocktail waitresses, hoboes, painters, and a host of others who each in some way, big or small, play their part in peopling the wildly exilerating drama of Kaufman’s passionate and exotic life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether the addiction be booze, women, violence, writing or fame, Kaufman honors us with an explicit honesty that only a writer of enormous power and artistic greatness can attain, and his life, as \u003ci\u003eDrunken Angel\u003c\/i\u003e poignantly shows, is a profoundly meaningful quest for truth and spiritual values.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cleis Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060864041200,"sku":"9781936740321","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936740321_p0.jpg?v=1763658904","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936740321","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}