Title: Requiem for a dream
First published: 1978
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.
Subjects: Drug abuse, Drug addicts, Fiction, Fiction in English, Mothers and sons, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Mothers and sons, fiction, Fiction, media tie-in, Alienation (Social psychology)
Places: Coney Island (New York, N.Y.), N.Y.) Coney Island (New York, New York (N.Y.)