this was a great novel by an Irish author around my age kind of a semi fictional Memoir all about his experience with life drugs sex techno in Berlin art and literature highly recommended
Threshold (2020)
Rob has spent most of his confusing adult life wandering, writing, and imbibing literature and narcotics in equally vast doses. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, between exaltation and despair, his travels have acquired a de facto purpose: the immemorial quest for transcendent meaning.
- ISBN:
- 9781526607089
- Length:
- 336 pages
Genres: romance
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