Slow Death in Paris Denis Belloc, William Rodarmor (Translator) Paperback - 150 pages (November 1995) Quartet Books; ISBN: 0704301946

The descent into hell is long and abhorrent, and in this case the vehicle is heroin. An army of spectres roam the Parisian boulevards, bars and parking-lots looking for a fix. among them a thirty-six-year-old homosexual writer and painter. He'is in love but his passion is unreciprocated; to ease the pain of rejection he takes drugs.

The power of Slow Death in Paris lies in the grim and unsparing portrayal of the grimy underside of the City of Light. Prostitutes and pimps; shooting up and despair; a terrified young woman begging for mercy from a pusher with a knife at her throat; a junkie urinating into a syringe to dissolve his dope...the stark depiction of a cruel underworld.

Denis Belloc is a writer and painter living in Paris. His novels are rough trade, but told with the skill and raw energy that have earned Belloc a place beside such writers as Jean Genet, William Burroughs and Joe Orton.
TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM RODARMOR
'A powerful gritty study in personal despair and obsessive addiction'
THE PINK PAPER

Paperback, excellent condition