Don't expect to probe the mind of a woman whose life was ruined by heroin, because Ann Marlowe won't take you down that road. Instead, her provocatively structured memoir, How to Stop Time: Heroin from A To Z, follows the life of an upper-class addict who makes no apologies for the pictures she fails to paint. Marlowe is the antithesis of the junkie
stereotype. Throughout her seven-year addiction, she never shot up, never lived on the street, and never
resorted to selling drugs or her body to sustain her habit. In short, she never bottomed out. As a result, readers with the
preconception that all druggies end up on the dark side may put this book down and ask, "What's interesting about her…
For the most part, I liked this book very much. Unlike many of the other reviewers, I have never even touched heroin. Therefore, I give great weight to their comments.I was fascinated to finally read… Ann Marlowe is a cleaver writer who has *constructed*, rather than written a not so cleaver book on addiction. Or has she even done that? We see her addiction to the cool, more-hip-than-thou scene of…
