Phil Shoenfelt

Junkie Love Phil Shoenfelt

Addiction and loss in Camden Town, London, in the late 80's, when hope disappeared and hedonism turned to despair and self-loathing. The characters, the blank generation, are rootless and adrift, dislocated from their pasts with no belief in the aims and aspirations of a materialistic society. Instead of turning to politics or religion, they embark on a course of self-destructive sex and manically obsessive drug abuse, a journey to the end of the night from which many do not return. Largely autobiographical and leavened with irony and perverse humor, Junkie Love follows the protagonist into the heart of this morass, where corruption and dissipation approach transcendence.