Story of Junk

"[A] gritty portrait of heroin addiction....Writing in edgy, serviceable prose, Ms. Yablonsky gives the reader some evocative snapshots of the worlds her characters frequent....Though Ms. Yablonsky proves she can be a vivid storyteller when she has a real story to relate (like her narrator's smuggling trip to Thailand), and demonstrates an anthropological flair for recording the mores of the downtown drug scene, her narrative often devolves into a weary recitation of drug buys, drug busts, drug parties: the deadening routines that frame an addict's life.Yablonsky, Linda is the author of 'Story of Junk', published 1998 under ISBN 9780316968089 and ISBN 0316968080.