Jerry Stahl
Author
Language
English
Description
"Often brilliant, always compelling." - Pittsburgh Tribune
From acclaimed and controversial author Jerry Stahl comes one of the most vividly subversive, savagely funny, explosive novels yet unleashed in our tender century. Pain Killers is a violent and mind-wrenching masterpiece in the Gonzo Noir style that has earned Jerry Stahl his legion of avid fans. For those who enjoy the works of Chuck Palahniuk, Terry Southern, and Hunter S Thompson-as well...
Author
Language
English
Description
Bad Sex on Speed is a savage, careening, hyper-real nightmare of a novel, taking us to the depths of Amphetamine America. Told with no concession to traditional narrative, in the voices of those in the grips and on the fringes, the stories that emerge are at once devastating, hysterical, and perhaps most terrifying of all going on all around you, all the time. Stahl digs deep into the psyche of the most demented and dispossessed among us, returning...
Author
Language
English
Description
Jerry Stahl's seminal memoir of drug addiction and a career in Hollywood, Permanent Midnight is a classic along the lines of Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn. Illuminating the self-loathing and self-destruction of an addict's inner life, Permanent Midnight follows Stahl through the dregs of addiction and into sobriety. In 1998, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Maria Bello starred in a film version of Permanent Midnight to much acclaim. Nic Sheff,...
Author
Language
English
Description
OG (Old Guy) Dad recounts the adventures of a man who, in the proverbial autumn of his years, or at least the pre pre-autumn, discovers his girlfriend is pregnant. And having a baby. Whereupon hijinks, cosmic and mundane, ensues. A collection of celebrated columns on The Rumpus with new material and never-before-told tales, OG (Old Guy) Dad is Jerry Stahl at his finest and most domestic.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 155 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of the passionate love affair and tumultuous marriage between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, following the adventurous writers through all the great conflicts of their time.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (443 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An employee at a prison in upstate New York becomes romantically involved with two male inmates and helps them escape. Based on a true story.
7) Bad boys II
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
videorecording
Physical Desc
1 videorecording (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey and Marcus Bennett head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Their search leads to a dangerous kingpin, whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched off an underground war.
8) Bad boys II
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hotshot and wisecracking Miami narcotics officers Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowry are on the case again. This time around, they've been assigned to head up a task force to investigate the illegal trafficking of ecstasy into the city.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the passionate love affair and tumultuous marriage between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, following the adventurous writers through all the great conflicts of their time.
10) Bad boys II
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
videorecording
Physical Desc
1 videorecording (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey and Marcus Bennett head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Their search leads to a dangerous kingpin, whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched off an underground war.