The Corner is where West Fayette Street meets Monroe Street in West Baltimore. The book traces a year in the life of the inner-city drug trade while giving an insight into the disintegration of one family in particular. Although based on real people it reads like fiction, a piece of literature verite. In 1942, William McCullough moved to Baltimore with $1.40 in his pocket and raised six children out of poverty by taking a series of labouring jobs. But heroin started flooding the streets in the seventies and by the nineties Baltimore had the highest rate of intravenous drug use in the United States. One by one each of his children fall victim to addiction.
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04 September 2009
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood
The Corner is where West Fayette Street meets Monroe Street in West Baltimore. The book traces a year in the life of the inner-city drug trade while giving an insight into the disintegration of one family in particular. Although based on real people it reads like fiction, a piece of literature verite. In 1942, William McCullough moved to Baltimore with $1.40 in his pocket and raised six children out of poverty by taking a series of labouring jobs. But heroin started flooding the streets in the seventies and by the nineties Baltimore had the highest rate of intravenous drug use in the United States. One by one each of his children fall victim to addiction.
03 September 2009
02 September 2009
Fat Curt - The Corner
We are introduced affectionately to Fat Curt at the beginning of The Corner: A Year in the life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood "His fattened, needle-scarred hands will never again see the bottom of a trouser pocket; his forearms are swollen leather; his bloated legs mass up from the concrete. But then obese limbs converge on a withered torso: At the heart of the man, Fat Curt is fat no more." We learn in the epilogue that after attempts at sobriety, Curt collapsed for the last time and died of liver failure on 9 June 1997.
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