. . . . "Breakfast in Babylon" . "Picaresque literature" . . "Breakfast in Babylon : a novel" . . "Fiction" . . . . . "An Irish girl describes life as a poor junkie. The mecca of her kind is Paris with its beauty and tolerant authorities. When her American boyfriend has to flee a drug dealer, they move to London where she lives on the dole. They break up and she goes to America." . .