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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Concrete Dreamland: Coming of Age in Underground New York

Concrete Dreamland: Coming of Age in Underground New York

Dougher, Patrick

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $32.00

ISBN10: 0316571024
ISBN13: 9780316571029
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: Apr 29 2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
A New York City Book Awards winner

From an award-winning artist who was featured in Humans of New York comes a bold personal narrative about overcoming family trauma, addiction, poverty--and forging a creative life in the greatest city in the world.

Born in Brooklyn in 1963, Patrick Dougher grew up in some of the most turbulent and culturally impactful periods of NYC's history. Often neglected as a child by his parents--a father who struggled with alcohol addiction and an overworked mother who struggled to make ends meet--he learned to fend for himself. Now a renowned visual artist, musician, actor and writer, Dougher brings to the page his memories, struggles, personal revelations, and a life intimately tied to the realities of growing up Black and disenfranchised on the streets of one of the most remarkable cities in the world.

Concrete Dreamland is tragic and triumphant, gritty and hard, poetic and outrageously funny. Told in Dougher's brutally raw and courageously honest voice, these stories act as snapshots of a life lived in extremes: from gangsters to God, street style to sexuality, to recovery from drug addiction and alcoholism. He tells of his adventures as a pre-hip hop hard rock' and an original Black punk rocker surviving during the dangerous days of the crack and AIDS epidemic in NYC, while also sharing tales of racism, homelessness, and his many brushes with fame and death.

Audacious, unique, and moving, Concrete Dreamland is an unforgettable story of addiction, redemption, and life on the streets of a vanishing New York.

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