Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages

by Michael Largo

Book Overview

What is the price of brilliance?

Why are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollack, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin, to Kurt Cobain, and on and on, authors and artists throughout history have binged, pill-popped, injected, or poisoned themselves for their art. Fully illustrated and addictively readable, Genius and Heroin is the indispensable reference...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061466417
• ISBN13: 9780061466410
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 9.0"