Morphine

Fiction & Literature, Literary
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Author: Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov ISBN: 9780811221696
Publisher: New Directions Publication: September 26, 2013
Imprint: New Directions Language: English
Author: Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
ISBN: 9780811221696
Publisher: New Directions
Publication: September 26, 2013
Imprint: New Directions
Language: English

From the author of The Master and Margarita comes this short and tragic masterpiece about drug addiction

Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What Bromgard uncovers in the entries is Polyakov’s uncontrollable and merciless descent into morphine addiction — his first injection to ease his back pain, the thrill of the drug as it overtakes him, the looming signs of addiction, and the feverish final entries before his death.

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From the author of The Master and Margarita comes this short and tragic masterpiece about drug addiction

Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What Bromgard uncovers in the entries is Polyakov’s uncontrollable and merciless descent into morphine addiction — his first injection to ease his back pain, the thrill of the drug as it overtakes him, the looming signs of addiction, and the feverish final entries before his death.

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