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Genius and Heroin
The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages
"What is the price of brilliance?"
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN
978-0061466410
Why are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollock, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain, artists throughout history have binged, pill-popped, injected, or poisoned themselves for their art. Fully illustrated and addictively readable, Genius and Heroin chronicles how the notoriously creative lived and died.
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Critical Acclaim
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"Michael Largo Is A Curator Of Death... you will enjoy the detailed descriptions of suicide, overdose, and otherwise untimely demise."
Esquire
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"Largo has now become the Capote of kaput."
Atlanta Journal Constitution
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"Absurdly entertaining."
Los Angeles Times
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"Meticulous, fascinating, and often intriguingly bizarre.... I am full of admiration for Michael Largo's achievement."
Simon Winchester
Author of The Professor and the Madman
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"Genius and Heroin makes for mad good reading on the divinely inspired, hopelessly self-destructive class."
Elle
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"For the obsessive-compulsive teen in everyone."
Publisher's Weekly
