Go Now - Brossura

Hell, Richard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1857024648 ISBN 13: 9781857024647

Casa editrice: Fourth Estate, 1996

Riassunto

A sort of On the Road with William Burroughs set to a rock beat, ‘Go Now’ is a ride, walk, stumble and fall on the wild side.

Billy, down on his luck, smacked-out New York rock ’n’ roller, is offered a job and a way out of the rut. With his on-off girlfriend, Chrissa, he is asked to drive from California to New York and document the trip. He writes the words, Chrissa takes the photographs. The journey is a chance to make good his life with Chrissa, avoid the lure of heroin and test himself as the writer he always believed himself to be. It’s the prospect of a long road to redemption.

But life throws up too much grit and sand: Billy is offered many opportunites to score heroin, many more to betray Chrissa in a mazy series of sexual adventures. Billy is heading, in the words of the old song, at ‘ninety miles an hour down a dead end street’ and the end when it comes, is both tragic and comic as Billy, entwined in yet another woman’s embrace, is caught by Chrissa on film. He is a part of his own reckless, rowdy documentary.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Richard Hell was one of the originators of New York punk with his bands Television and The Voidoids, and founded the CBGBs. Dedicated to his new career as a writer, he is currently working on his second novel.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Fourth Estate
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1857024648
• ISBN 13: 9781857024647
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176