Lenny Sklarew is a likable young ne’er-do-well who lives in a deserted Memphis neighborhood nicknamed “the Pinch,” works in a failing used bookstore called the Book Asylum and deals drugs in a flourishing dive bar. The year is 1968, the sanitation workers are on strike and the city is awash with protestors, policemen, hippies, uncollected garbage and psychogenic drugs.

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