From Despair to Where

Setting off on a road trip which may be his last, Michael drops off a drug addict in Talacre, talks the legs off a Glasgow prostitute and is tolerated by many a bored landlady.

This story has the alcoholic content of O'Brien's Leaving Las Vegas and the chemical highs of Naked Lunch while its portrait of reluctant adolescent disillusion evokes The Catcher in the Rye.