Requiem for a dream
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Hubert Selby, Jr. ; [forewords by Darren Aronofsky and Richard Price].
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York; [St. Paul, Minn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Mothers and sons -- Fiction; Drug addicts -- Fiction; Drug abuse -- Fiction; Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: This book is about four individuals who pursued the American Dream. In this searing novel, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of uncut heroin and getting rich. But their heroin habit gets the better of them, consumes them and destroys their dreams and Harry's mother's addiction to diet pills lands her in a state mental hospital.