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Zoo Station

Christiane F.

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Overview

In 1978 Christiane F. testified against a man who had traded heroin for sex with teenage girls at Berlin’s notorious Zoo Station. In the course of that trial, Christiane F. became connected with two journalists, and over time they helped to turn her story - which begins with a dysfunctional but otherwise fairly normal childhood - into an acclaimed bestseller. Christiane F.’s rapid descent into heroin abuse and prostitution is shocking, but the boredom, the longing for acceptance, the thrilling risks, and even the musical obsessions that fill out the rest of Christiane’s existence will be familiar to every reader. Christiane F.’s Berlin is a strange and often terrifying place, but it’s also a place that remains closer than we might think….

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013-01-02
Pages: 368
Language: EN
Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural & Regional, Juvenile Nonfiction / History / General, Juvenile Fiction / Family / General, Psychology / Psychopathology / Addiction, Self-Help / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, Social Science / Prostitution & Sex Trade, Young Adult Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / General, Young Adult Nonfiction / Social Topics / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse
ISBN-13: 9781936976225