Sweet Fire (High Risk Books)

Sweet Fire (High Risk Books)

by PatMacEnulty (Author)

Synopsis

While most people Trish?s age are listening to Led Zeppelin and watching Starsky and Hutch on TV, Trish spends the 1970s stealing and cheating to score. Heroin, pharmaceuticals, whatever she can get hold of. She travels from Florida to California and Mexico, hustling all the way, and always in the company of the wrong kind of men, whom she attracts wherever she goes. There?s not a rehab unit in the country that hasn?t thrown her out at least once. Far from under privileged, as the daughter of a concert violinist and a college professor and poet, it is hard to understand what set her on this self-destructive path. What in her past shaped a future of ripping off drugstores and being sent to jail? Sweet Fire, the author?s first novel, grabs you by the throat and never lets you go.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 30 Dec 2002

ISBN 10: 1852424559
ISBN 13: 9781852424558

Media Reviews
?In my 13 years as books editor of the Sun-Sentinel, this is only the second time I have written a letter of recommendation for an unpublished manuscript. Sweet Fire, is a searingly honest, often funny, always sordid story of a junkie?s life in the 1970?s? Chauncey Mabe, Book Editor, Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Author Bio
Pat MacEnulty is the author of three novels and a book of short stories. She grew up in Jacksonville, Florida and, after a period of drug addiction and imprisonment began writing. She now runs writing and drama workshops for prisoners and lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.