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Gentleman junkie / Harlan Ellison.

Summary:

"Bold and uncompromising, Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation is a watershed moment in Harlan Ellison's early writing career. Rather than dealing in speculative fiction, these twenty-five short stories directly tackle issues of discrimination, injustice, bigotry, and oppression by the police. Pulling from his own experience, Ellison paints vivd portraits of the helpless and downtrodden, blazing forth with the kind of unblinking honesty that would define his career. Reviewing this collection, Dorothy Parker called Ellison "a good, honest, clean writer, putting down what he has seen and known, and no sensationalism about it." -- Page 4 of cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781497643017
ISBN: 1497643015
Physical Description: 256 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York, NY : Open Road Integrated Media, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published in 1961.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / by Frank M. Robinson -- Introduction: the children of the nights -- Final shtick -- Gentleman junkie -- May we also speak? Four statements from the hung-up generation -- Daniel White for the greater good -- Lady bug, lady bug -- Free with this box! -- There's one on every campus -- At the mountains of blindness -- This is Jackie spinning -- No game for children -- The late, great Arnie Draper -- High dice -- Enter the fantastic, stage center -- Someone is hungrier -- Memory of a muted trumpet -- Turnpike -- Sally in our alley -- The silence of infidelity -- Have coolth -- RFD #2 -- No fourth commandment -- The night of delicate terrors.