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Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground by Marek Kohn

7 h 47 min · 21 de nov de 2024
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/817926 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/817926] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground Author: Marek Kohn Narrator: Jaimi Barbakoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 21, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, in 1918. Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica. They were eventually identified as the villains of the affair and invested with a highly charged sexual menace. Around them, in the streets off Shaftesbury Avenue, there swirled a raffish group of seedy and entitled hedonists. Britain was horrified and fascinated, and so the drug problem was born amid a gush of exotic tabloid detail. A fascinating look at cocaine and opium use in Britain after the First World War - Sarah Waters, Sunday Times

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