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Dopefiend

by Donald Goines

Love and ambition under the pressure of addiction

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Awards & Recognition

  • Editorial selection

    Black Enterprise — Best Books of All Time

    Listed as one of Black Enterprise’s Best Books of All Time.

AlbakiReads Editorial

Love and ambition under the pressure of addiction

Teddy and Terry begin with a future that seems wide open, but heroin addiction reshapes their relationship and pulls their lives toward the urban underworld. Dopefiend centers the cost of addiction on two people whose shared hopes give way to a worsening struggle. The publisher describes the novel as drawing on Donald Goines’s own experience with heroin addiction; that context frames its stark subject matter without turning the book into a guide or account of recovery. Its focus on Black urban life and the consequences of drug use places the couple’s story within the urban and street-fiction tradition.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in African American and Black urban or street fiction
  • Readers seeking fiction that examines heroin addiction and its effects on relationships
  • Readers interested in Donald Goines’s work and the experiences that informed it

Themes

Heroin addictionRelationships and shared ambitionConsequences of drug useBlack urban life

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Book overview

"Machiavelli was my tutor, Donald Goines my father figure."
--Tupac Shakur

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 today's hip hop culture, influencing major artists from Jay-Z and 50 Cent to Nas and Ghostface Killah. Dopefiend is Goines' classic descent into the junkie's 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 is--the whole truth and nothing but the truth--which keeps you coming back for more.

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