For Want Of The Horse The Rider Was Lost

This rough & raw book portrays Chicago’s skid row of the early 60’s-- with shades of Nelson Algren’s Man With the Golden Arm junkie tale: “They would all be leaving soon. The ghastly colored buildings lit up under a neon flash. The gas lit two dollar whores in an age of electric lights... They would be leaving in wagons of the vice squad. And then, later, in vans, strapped to stretchers with the bag zipped over their face. And the siren not turned on because there was no hurry.” This is the ‘Q’ document, cornerstone of the LUCY & MICKEY TRILOGY. The other two volumes (LUCY & MICKEY, and COME WITH ME LUCY) This is Lucy’s story. Which takes place in Chicago. Near North side: “Lucy didn’t talk much. You wouldn’t think she was shy, ‘cause she was all over the street, all the time. You saw her in every bar, up and down the dismal green and red lights of skid row, all the night through, ‘till 5am.