Punk Elegies
True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex, and Trial by Angel Dust
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Pop & Rock, Punk, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Allan MacDonell | ISBN: | 9781940207629 |
| Publisher: | Rare Bird Books | Publication: | February 23, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book | Language: | English |
| Author: | Allan MacDonell |
| ISBN: | 9781940207629 |
| Publisher: | Rare Bird Books |
| Publication: | February 23, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book |
| Language: | English |
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 1970s, 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 his life dares him to step outside.
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 1970s, 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 his life dares him to step outside.
