Several Birds
Poor Tony Krause is a homeless transvestite drug addict in twenty-first-century Massachusetts. Lengthy footnotes tell how he snatched a woman's …
On heroin withdrawal: "Not just get strung out or sick. Withdraw. The various terms echoed in his head with the simply most awful sinister-footsteps-echoing-in-deserted-corridor quality." DFW's harrowing vision of addiction.