num_pages: 219
description: Digging the Vein's unnamed narrator has a He has a burgeoning drug habit and a wife he's only known for two days, but no job, no money, and no way out. As the narrator's life crumbles, the pills, booze, and problems multiply until he hits on a brilliant heroin. Soon the narrator is associating with a cabal of street freaks. Just as the comedy is piling up, things go sour, making Digging the Vein a brutal look at a self-destructed, marginal life.
language: English
title: Digging the Vein
titlecomplete: Digging the Vein
genres: Dark, Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 286
publisher: Contemporary Press