{"product_id":"narcisa-jonathan-shaw-9780062354990","title":"Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first trade edition of the cult classic from the artist\/author hailed by Iggy Pop as \"the great nightmare anti-hero of the new age,\" legendary tattoo artist Jonathan Shaw, that chronicles a scandalous, degenerative addiction between two people--a wild, brutal, passionate, and unstoppable ride into depravity and darkness through the back alleys of Rio De Janeiro and New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA legendary tattoo master and notorious creator of trendsetting underground art, Jonathan Shaw has created a masterpiece with this powerful story that captures the destructive addiction of love, sex and drugs, embodied in two people whose irresistible passions threaten to destroy them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild backwaters of Rio de Janeiro and New York, motorcycle-riding, nomadic outlaw poet Ignacio Valencia Lobos--known as Cigano--attempts in vain to curb the unhinged habits of his lover Narcisa, a crack-smoking philosopher prostitute. Though he knows they will destroy each other, Narcisa is an exquisite poison he cannot resist. As they navigate the chaos of her downward spiral--dragged deeper by the gravity of drugs, burglaries and violence, Cigano recounts a love affair doomed by insanity, dysfunction, and vice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA magnificent epic of literary genius, \u003cem\u003eNarcisa \u003c\/em\u003ebelongs among the works of such greats as Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Irvine Welsh, and Hunter S. Thompson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Shaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 006235499X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062354990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2015","brand":"Jonathan Shaw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075939627263,"sku":"9780062354990","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e126ee17-193f-4e0b-8631-8b71f3799626.jpg?v=1685462302","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/narcisa-jonathan-shaw-9780062354990","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}