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Dopefiend: The Story of a Black Junkie is a 1971 novel by Donald Goines and his first published novel.[1] The book is considered to be Goines's benchmark novel and shares some similarities to the author's life.[2] The book deals with "the power dynamics between dealer and junkie and illustrates how a perverted, cowardly, black drug dealer in a dilapidated ghetto house can exert his influence across socioeconomic boundaries over anyone who becomes addicted to heroin. Goines emphasizes that no heroin user can emerge from the experience unscathed."[3]
The novel was written while Goines was incarcerated and was written after his book Whoreson was accepted by Holloway House's editors, but was published first.[4]
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- ^ Goode, Greg (1984). "From Dopefiend to Kenyatta's Last Hit: The Angry Black Crime Novels of Donald Goines". MELUS. 11 (3): 41–48. doi:10.2307/467132. JSTOR 467132.