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Punk Elegies
Overview
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 his life dares him to step outside.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781940207612
- ISBN-10: 1940207614
- Publisher: Rare Bird Books
- Publish Date: April 2015
- Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
- Page Count: 328
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