{"product_id":"9780061466410","title":"Genius and Heroin : The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGenius and Heroin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Michael Largo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the price of brilliance?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollack, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin, to Kurt Cobain, and on and on, authors and artists throughout history have binged, pill-popped, injected, or poisoned themselves for their art. Fully illustrated and addictively readable, \u003cem\u003eGenius and Heroin\u003c\/em\u003e is the indispensable reference to the untidy lives of our greatest artists and thinkers, entertainingly chronicling how the notoriously creative lived and died—whether their ultimate downfalls were the result of opiates, alcohol, pot, absinthe, or the slow-motion suicide of obsession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Chockablock with faces, figures, and facts Michael Largo’s \u003ci\u003eGenius and Heroin\u003c\/i\u003e makes for mad good reading on the divinely inspired, hopelessly self-destructive class. Poe, Piaf, Warhol anyone?”\u003cbr\u003e“Meticulous, fascinating, and often intriguingly bizarre . . . I am full of admiration for his achievement--just the ideal book for bathroom reading.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780061466410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41045431419086,"sku":"9780061466410","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780061466410_5bcd02a0-cbff-48c9-bc4a-da445477ab69.jpg?v=1652120105","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780061466410","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}