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Narcotic euphoria meets the demands of everyday life in Richard
Wirick's brilliant new collection of interlocking stories. Whether
depicting a Valium-fogged lawyer representing a car painter who
cooked a client in his kiln, or revealing a Gulf War orderly's
drift in and out of morphine dreams during an aerial Medevac
surgery, Wirick's stories are rich with the social contexts in
which sedation's acolytes emerge, come forward to flourish, and
then often violently explode or fade away. With a finesse that
invigorates and then jars the reader, Wirick maneuvers between
narratives of shimmering hallucinations and ecstatic mood-peaks.
But Kicking In is not just another drug book. A gut punch to the
notion that the drug war stems from society's fringe element,
Wirick shines a light on the ways presumably democratic governments
use depressants and stimulants to keep selected segments of the
population marginalized and disenfranchised. The result is a
masterful collection--a vividly terrifying yet startlingly prosaic
consideration of the varieties of drug users' experience with what
Coleridge called "the milk of Paradise."
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