This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States.
Righteous Dopefiend interweaves stunning black-and-white photographs with vivid dialogue, detail.
For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhandling, recycling, and day labor.
This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States