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The Birth of the British Drug Underground
Marek Kohn
ISBN: 9781862076181
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Granta Books
Edition: New edition
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"Dope Girls" is about the transformation of drug use into a national menace. It revolves around the death in 1918, of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress.
A drug panic. Murder. Terrifying and mysterious black and Chinese immigrants. Dope Kings. Jazz. War. An actress dead of an overdose. "Dope Girls" is about the transformation of drug use into a national menace. It revolves around the death in 1918, in the last furious stages of World War I, of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress. Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor, and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica. Around them in the streets off Shaftesbury Avenue and in Chinatown swirled a raffish group of seedy and rebellious hedonists. The drug problem was born, amid a gush of exotic tabloid detail.
| ISBN | 1862076189 | | Pages | 208 | | ISBN13 | 9781862076181
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Granta Books | | Weight (grammes) | 150 | | Imprint | Granta Books | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9781862074064 | | Publication date | 01 Nov 2003 | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Library of Congress | HV5840.G7 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 362.290941 | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General |
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'A fascinating look at cocaine and opium use in Britain after the first world war' Sarah Waters, Sunday Times 'The best, most perceptive and most authoritative account of the British drug scene ever. This book is essential reading for doctors, legislators and law enforcers - indeed anyone who seeks to understand the impact that the illegal status of drugs has had on our society and culture' Will Self  Be the first to write a customer review
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