Punk Elegies: True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex, and Trial by Angel Dust (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781940207612)

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.


Author: Allan Macdonell
ISBN-10: 1940207614
ISBN-13: 9781940207612
Publisher: Rare Bird Books, a Barnacle Book
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2015
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 04/06/2015