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Doubleday
April 2014
On Sale: April 1, 2014
272 pages
ISBN: 0385533462
EAN: 9780385533461
Kindle: B00FO5Z9J8
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In the tradition of Blow and Another Bullshit Night in Suck
City, The Last Pirate is a vivid, haunting and often
hilarious memoir recounting the life of Big Tony, a family
man who joined the biggest pot ring of the Reagan era and
exploded his life in the process. Three decades later, his
son came back to put together the pieces. As he relates his father’s rise from hey-man hippie dealer
to multi-ton smuggler extraordinaire, Tony Dokoupil tells
the larger history of marijuana and untangles the
controversies still stirring furious debate today. He blends
superb reportage with searing personal memories, presenting
a probing chronicle of pot-smoking, drug-taking America from
the perspective of the generation that grew up in the
aftermath of the Great Stoned Age. Back then, everyone knew
a drug dealer. The Last Pirate is the story of what happened to one of
them, to his family, and in a pharmacological sense, to us
all. The Last Pirate is a cultural portrait of marijuana’s
endless allure set against the Technicolor backdrop of South
Florida in the era of Miami Vice. It’s a public saga
complete with a real pirate’s booty: more than a million
dollars lost, buried, or stolen—but it’s also a deeply
personal pursuit, the product of a son’s determination to
replant the family tree in richer soil.
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