Narcisa, by Jonathan Shaw
Hrtwrm #21
A 360 page memoir by Jonathan Shaw.
Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes is Shaw's first leap into the world of shock literature. Based on a true story and set in the hot urban sprawl of Rio de Janeiro, Shaw's tale follows the twisted love affair between a middle-aged gypsy and the beautifully manipulative and insane young prostitute, Narcisa, with hilarious, poignant and often tragic detail. Recounted in three years of diary entries, Shaw's character navigates the teeming slums and lice-infested flop houses of Rio and stumbles along a secret passage to enlightenment at the hands of a gyrating Buddhist Dakini. Through this darkly hilarious litany of doomed love, drug addiction, compulsive sex and mutual enslavement, Shaw proves that it is possible to follow your heart and never once be degraded by self pity.
Intro by Lydia Lunch, photo by Richard Kern.
Limited to 1,000 copies.
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