Volume 44, Number 14 · September 25, 1997
The Awful Truth
By Sue Halpern
The Story of Junk: A Novel
by Linda Yablonsky
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,, 324 pp., $23.00
The Kiss
by Kathryn Harrison
Random House, 207 pp., $20.00
Eve's Apple
by Jonathan Rosen
Random House, 309 pp., $24.00
The first time I came across Linda Yablonsky's The Story of Junk, it was a twenty-page submission to a grant-making organization for which I was a judge. I was on the nonfiction panel and The Story of Junk, a dazed chronicle of the author's life as a downtown heroin addict, was offered as a factual account. Although Ms. Yablonsky did not receive the award, the details of her manuscript stuck in my mind for a long time afterward. In that piece, which is the first chapter of Junk, an offic er of the Drug Enforcement Agency has caught up with Ms. Yablonsky and is tugging at the threads that will make her life unravel. He is obsessive, like another addiction, and there is no way she can shake him.
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