Deliria (90's)

By Albyn Leah Hall and Alex Brown

Claudia lives for the winter, the din of darkening pubs, for torch songs, for Crilly. Fleeing the glitter of her native California, she finds her own brand of hedonism in the underworld of Camden Town. Her world is not solely the drugs and characters that patrol it; it is the deep sensuality of her escape, oblivion. Together with her lover, Claudia explores the outer regions of such oblivion, guiding her between strange homes and pubs, the back streets of London and Dublin and, eventually, home again, where she is forced to come to terms with the very self she is evading.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852422947
• ISBN13: 9781852422943
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Beaufiful and poetic story of love and decadence

This is one of the most lovely books I've ever read. It details a young woman's descent into the dark crevices of a London drug world and her ultimate redemption. But no matter how deeply rent and despondent becomes the narrator's life, Hall's magical mastery of poetics and atmophere never allow the reader to slip any further away than to the edge of an exotic never-ceasing dream. The section where she travels to Ireland with her boyfriend is beyond brilliant. To classsify this amazing text as a "drug" book would be like describing Huckleberry Finn as a book about rafts. Highly, highly recommended. it's a real treat. No one seems to know what has happened to this exceedingly talented writer.