{"product_id":"narcisa-our-lady-of-ashes-isbn-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 | \u003cp\u003eA legendary tattoo artist and notorious creator of trendsetting underground art, Jonathan Shaw captures the destructive addiction of love, sex, drugs, and demonic possession embodied in two people whose irresistible passions threaten to destroy them in this cult classic novel.\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 genius epic of outlaw literature, Narcisa belongs 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 | \u003cp\u003e“Haunting poetry.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHubert Selby Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A twisted pleasure.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mandatory reading.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLydia Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The next Bukowski” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fearless storytelling.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarilyn Manson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jonathan Shaw is the great nightmare anti-hero of the new age.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIggy Pop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shaw’s writing is one hell of a wild ride through the bizarre netherworld of his own damaged consciousness.  His experiences are real and his language and insights kinetic and brutal... Shaw’s writing certifies him as a subversive and criminal inhabitant of the world of human expression.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJim Jarmusch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A darkly hilarious litany of doomed love, drug addiction, compulsive sex and mutual enslavement...” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If Hubert Selby Jr., Charles Bukowski, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neil Cassady, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the Marquis de Sade, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Edward Teach, Charley Parker, Iggy Pop, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, R. Crumb, Robert Williams, Joe Coleman, Dashiell Hammett, E.M. Cioran and all of the Three Stooges had all been involved in some greasy, shameful, evil whorehouse orgy, Jonathan Shaw would surely be its diabolical, reprobate spawn.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohnny Depp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888259133669,"sku":"NP9780062354990","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062354990.jpg?v=1730228656","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/narcisa-our-lady-of-ashes-isbn-9780062354990","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}