Punk Elegies: True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex, and Trial by Angel Dust
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (956 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1940207614 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Slam-Dancing on the Corner of Hollywood and Armageddon (at the End of the 70s, No Less) Mike McPadden Come for the sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll (each of which alternates in order of prominence throughout), leave feeling devastated, elated, and inspired by Allan MacDonell's shockingly beautiful way with a word. PUNK ELEGIES is a plunge into a genuine only-in- Los-A. Gripping sex and drug fulled page turner Amazon Customer dark and deep inside the la punk scene in the early 80's. "Five Stars" according to John Eisenhart. Great read!
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. 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. The first sunrise of the rest of his life dares him to step outside.
Searing, comic and self-immolating, Elegies ultimately becomes a love letter to lost time."—Evan Wright, Generation Kill and Hella Nation. punk. "Set in the glittering ruins of late 1970s Hollywood, MacDonell's coming-of-age tale tracks the rise and folly of L.A