| Re: Book Hauls! The fourth and final of the Penguin mini modern classics I was after... Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism - Hans Fallada *Drawing on Hans Fallada's own history of addiction, these two stories are written with a remarkable, tough, spartan clarity. As a man desperately, haplessly tries to get enough morphine to make it through the day and a drunk embezzler struggles to get himself arrested, they are at one second crushing, the next darkly comic. |