SKU: B-000412

Autobiography Of A Child Prostitute And Heroin Addict

Author: Christane F

Special Features: Dust Jacket, First Edition, Hardcover

Condition: The dust jacket is worn/chipped/torn. The dust jacket inner sleeve has foxing front and back. The front and back inner cover and paper have some foxing/light marks. A rare page edge scuff. The pages are otherwise clean and tidy. No dog ears. No stuck pages. Tight strong binding. From a smoke free home.

Biography & Memoir True Crime

Autobiography Memoir True Stories Cultural Studies Cultural History Addiction

Christiane F’s raw memoir, Autobiography of a Child Prostitute and Heroin Addict, remains the defining account of 1970s West Berlin youth culture and drug crisis. This 1980 first-edition hardcover preserves the unfiltered voice that shocked the world and became required reading in cultural-studies classrooms.

The 282-page narrative traces the author’s slide from bored teenager to Zoo Station heroin addict and underage sex worker without romanticizing a single day. Readers seeking true-crime realism, social-work insight, or stark coming-of-age truth will find the pages as urgent today as when the book first hit shelves.

Dust jacket shows edge chips and foxing, yet the vivid cover art still grabs shelf attention. Inside, the binding is tight, pages are unmarked, and no smoke or library markings intrude—ideal for collectors who value rarity over cosmetic perfection.

A vintage, adult-audience nonfiction cornerstone for devotees of memoir, true crime, and cultural history.

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