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"At the age of 14 Stephen Smith was a young tearaway, who was arrested for theft. Instead of going to prison however, he was sent to a mental insitution. Whilst he was there his therapist introduced him to amphetamines, which was to dominate most of his life.
During this period speed was legal and could easily be ordered from a chemist. Smith would regularly buy his drugs and was soon hopelessly addicted. Whilst he was under the influence of speed he was always involved in highly paid criminal activities, making him very rich by the time he was 20. When he was 21 Smith fell in love with and married a young Maltese woman called Camilla, who had only married him for his money. They had a short, stormy marriage, made worse by Smith's drug use. Somehow he had managed to obtain the custody of his young daughter but his money was rapidly running out, and soon he could not afford to look after her.
After he was forced to move out of his home, Smith wandered the streets and spent five years in and out of Salvation Army shelters. When he failed to clean up in one rehab centre, he lived on the streets with other homeless people. In an attempt to find help, he took a boat to Germany where he almost died on the road. Since then he had turned his life around, and now runs seminars for other drug addicts."
Liza Rosette, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Phys disability/mental struggle?
Yes
Struggle with
- drugs
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Age:
- long lived adults
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 7 ()
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
- Eastern Europe
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to torture
Book makes you feel?
- depressed
Sex in book?
Yes
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Writer's slant towards subject:
- neutral
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- More 6-10 B&W
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices?
Yes
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