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Jonathan Shaw


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A legendary tattoo artist and notorious creator of trendsetting underground art, Jonathan Shaw captures the destructive addiction of love, sex, drugs, and demonic possession embodied in two people whose irresistible passions threaten to destroy them in this cult classic novel.

In the wild backwaters of Rio de Janeiro and New York, motorcycle-riding, nomadic outlaw poet Ignacio Valencia Lobos—known as Cigano—attempts in vain to curb the unhinged habits of his lover, Narcisa, a crack-smoking philosopher prostitute. Though he knows they will destroy each other, Narcisa is an exquisite poison he cannot resist. As they navigate the chaos of her downward spiral—dragged deeper by the gravity of drugs, burglaries, and violence, Cigano recounts a lov
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Average rating: 3.75 · 487 ratings · 77 reviews · 7 distinct worksSimilar authors
Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes

3.64 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions
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Vintage Tattoo Flash: 100 Y...

4.49 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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Scab Vendor: Confessions of...

3.62 avg rating — 47 ratings5 editions
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Vintage Tattoo Flash Volume 2

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Love Songs to the Dead

4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009
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Homeward Bound: Confessions...

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Sensitive Skin #13

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“I reminded myself that worrying is like praying for bad shit to happen.”
Jonathan Shaw, Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes

“Crazy, jingle-jangle summer days and long, steamy Carioca nights. Narcisa and I running from the cops together, merging into humid nighttime shadows, hand in hand, laughing through it all. Jingle days. Times to remember forever.”
Jonathan Shaw, Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes

“An addict with an excuse is like a monkey with a machine gun.”
Jonathan Shaw, Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes



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