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Punk Elegies: True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex, and Trial by Angel Dust
Allan Macdonell
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Description for Punk Elegies: True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex, and Trial by Angel Dust
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; AVGU; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 402.
Punk Elegies arrives like a chemically unstable mixture of Richard Yates and Damon Runyon. Set along Hollywood Boulevard at the birth of punk and the death of the seventies, the thirty-three melancholic, comic laments of Punk Elegies are a mesmerizing concoction of delusion and revelation. A cultural moment, a marriage, and one young man's mind and soul spiral through a series of boundless possibilities and arrive at a harrowing finality. In the end, on the spin cycle of destiny, MacDonell circles alone, naked and bewildered in the labyrinth of a pre-AIDS bathhouse inferno. The first sunrise of the rest of ... Read more
Punk Elegies arrives like a chemically unstable mixture of Richard Yates and Damon Runyon. Set along Hollywood Boulevard at the birth of punk and the death of the seventies, the thirty-three melancholic, comic laments of Punk Elegies are a mesmerizing concoction of delusion and revelation. A cultural moment, a marriage, and one young man's mind and soul spiral through a series of boundless possibilities and arrive at a harrowing finality. In the end, on the spin cycle of destiny, MacDonell circles alone, naked and bewildered in the labyrinth of a pre-AIDS bathhouse inferno. The first sunrise of the rest of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
401g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
California, United States
ISBN
9781940207612
SKU
V9781940207612
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About Allan Macdonell
Allan MacDonell is the author of Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine and was a defining voice of the groundbreaking punk periodical Slash magazine. While writing for Slash, he also co-invented slam-dancing. MacDonell lives in Los Angeles.
Reviews for Punk Elegies: True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex, and Trial by Angel Dust
"Set in the glittering ruins of late 1970s Hollywood, MacDonell's coming-of-age tale tracks the rise and folly of L.A. punk. Searing, comic and self-immolating, Elegies ultimately becomes a love letter to lost time."
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