The Rocket's Red Glare - Couverture souple

Messer, Kent

 
9780595136995: The Rocket's Red Glare
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595136990 ISBN 13 : 9780595136995
Editeur : iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

In 1982 a high school shooting shook the community of Sabreton, Pennsylvania. A year later signs of the shooting had been swept clean and students seemed to take events in stride. For Gary, an insecure 1983 Sabreton freshman, this only added to his anxiety as he began what promised to be a humiliating year of school. The Rockets Red Glare is a story of the friendships that sustained, inspired and ultimately carried Gary through those turbulent years. He and his friends were, for the most part, middle class kids who were drawn to the New Wave and Punk music popular at that time. For them, drinking, dancing, and loving it all seemed so right but ended so badly.Five years after high school Gary is now on his own. He is an aspiring artist balancing a hatred for his corporate day job with his live-in girlfriends desire for stability. But soon his world will change when he receives a call from an old friend. An impromptu road trip across America, a tape of a long forgotten band and a suicide force him to face the question of whether he has really survived anything.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In 1982 a high school shooting shook the community of Sabreton, Pennsylvania. A year later signs of the shooting had been swept clean and students seemed to take events in stride. For Gary, an insecure 1983 Sabreton freshman, this only added to his anxiety as he began what promised to be a humiliating year of school. The Rockets Red Glare is a story of the friendships that sustained, inspired and ultimately carried Gary through those turbulent years. He and his friends were, for the most part, middle class kids who were drawn to the New Wave and Punk music popular at that time. For them, drinking, dancing, and loving it all seemed so right but ended so badly.Five years after high school Gary is now on his own. He is an aspiring artist balancing a hatred for his corporate day job with his live-in girlfriends desire for stability. But soon his world will change when he receives a call from an old friend. An impromptu road trip across America, a tape of a long forgotten band and a suicide force him to face the question of whether he has really survived anything.

Biographie de l'auteur

Kent Messer was born in Champagne-Urbana, Illinois. He grew up in rural Southeastern Pennsylvania where he performed with New Wave and Punk cover bands in the early 1980s, inspiring this book and its lyrics. He is now a doctor in Michigan where he lives with his wife and children.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595136990
ISBN 13 
9780595136995
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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