
Punk Elegies
True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex, and Trial by Angel Dust
Allan Macdonell(Author)
Rare Bird Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 7. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-940207-61-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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." --Evan Wright, Generation Kill and Hella NationMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
California
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
409 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-940207-61-2 (9781940207612)
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Person
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.