Written in America while Trocchi was working on a scow on the Hudson River Cain's Book is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a junky's life & an honest raunchy eye-opening trip through hell Probably the most famous novel about drug addiction & the hazards & excitements of an addict's life after Burrough's Naked Lunch this modern classic
- which was prosecuted in Britain for obscenity in 1965
- still shocks in its frankness & is relevant to this day