Righteous dopefiend
Philippe I. Bourgois (Author), Jeff Schonberg (Author)
"This powerful anthropological and photographic study plunges the reader into the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers in their scramble for survival on the streets of San Francisco. Righteous Dopefiend is a vivid chronicle of intimate suffering, solidarity, and betrayal and a trenchant analysis of the structural forces that shape the lives of the destitute in the world's wealthiest nation"--Back cover
eBook, English, 2019
[MS Word edition]
W. Ross MacDonald School Resource Services Library, Brantford, Ontario, 2019