Edited janice eidus (2 Ergebnisse)
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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. Godine Paperback Original, First edition, 1998. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "A fiction anthology of 22 stories that celebrate the many sides of rock and roll and its cultural impact. Among the many gems here are Lee K. Abbott's wild portrait of a delusional,…megalomaniacal rock star on his comeback; T. Coraghessan Boyle's wryly comic depiction of a recently deceased guitarist trying to find his way to rock and roll heaven; Kathleen Warnock's wistful tale of a schoolteacher in the 1980s who meets the real Elvis; Janice Eidus's hip romance between a fifties doo-wop singer and his high-school sweetheart; Lucinda Ebersole's fine riff on Kafka's Metamorphosis, in which a nineties guy named Sammy wakes up one morning as a Beatle; and Geoffrey Becker's moving story of a road trip taken by a guitar-playing father and his teenage son, a journey on which they learn the real meaning of the blues." [publisher copy] "How different this anthology would be if it had been published in, say, 1972, when rock and roll still had its messianic buzz. Twenty-five years later we have a book of 22 stories about rock in which not a single character even thinks about doing acid. If that makes you feel, well, old, welcome to the overriding theme of the book. Jill McCorkle captures the mood here in the wonderful 'Final Vinyl Days', in which the narrator, a mid-30s male rock aficionado, experiences both the phasing-out of real records and the parallel rejection (by a series of girlfriends) of his alternative, non-advancing lifestyle. In a similar vein, the 35-year-old father in Geoffrey Becker's 'Bluestown' removes his 15-year-old son from high school for an unauthorized journey to Canada, ostensibly to share his last shot at a steady gig but really in a hurtful effort to overcome his own sense of failure. Then there is the mood of rueful mundaneness in Madison Smartt Bell's 'Never Mind,' covering a day in the life of a covers band, whose members know that it will never make the big time. Still, all is not resignation. More upbeat tales include Kevin Downs's funny story of how an ex-punker came to love that schlock classic, Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven'; Harold Jaffee's stream-of-consciousness post-gonzo rant 'Madonna'; and Lucinda Ebersole's throwaway, 'Bigger Than Jesus,' about a man who wakes up as a Beatle--Ringo, of course."--Publishers Weekly. "To read this book is to realize why rock and roll will never die."--Kinky Friedman. Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable.
Verlag: The Center for Writers, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 1980
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Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Periodical. Octavo. 146pp. Perfectbound illustrated wrappers. Modest edgewear, else a near fine copy. Contributions by Alvin Greenberg, Charles Simic, Guy Davenport, Noberto Luis Romero, Angela Ball, Mark Mirsky, Steve Ketterer, Lance Olsen, Robley Wilson, Galway Kinnell, Kathryn Kramer, William Fe…rguson, Janice Eidus, Susan Ludvigson, Marianne Boruch, Pam Nall, Nicholas Rinaldi, Yumiko Kurahashi, and Lisa Zeidner.
