Author Phil Baker explores absinthe's squalid past, the artists and writers who have drunk it and the myths that surround it. The cast of characters that litter absinthe's history range from Oscar Wilde, Rimbaud and Verlaine, Aleister Crowley to Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway.

• Measures 5.5" x 8.5".
• 296 pages.
• Printed in the United States.