HOT WAX: An electric, rock and roll fuelled story of one band's rise to stardom and one women's quest for answers - Couverture souple

Rio, M. L.

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ISBN 10 : 1035421178 ISBN 13 : 9781035421176

Editeur : Wildfire, 2025

Synopsis

'Sensory and visceral from page one . . . M. L. Rio is a force to be reckoned with' JENNIFER EGAN

'The sleaze of the Stooges, the energy of the Ramones and the glamour of the Cramps - Hot Wax is a pure foot-on-the-monitors, amps-up-to-ten rock 'n' roll classic' MAT OSMAN

A vivid and immersive tale of one woman's reckless mission to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood, and made her who she is.

Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father's forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. When her mother remarries, she jumps at the chance to tag along on the concert tour that just might be Gil and the Kills' wild ride to glory. But fame has sharper fangs than anybody realized, and as the band blazes up the charts, internal power struggles set Gil and his group on a collision course destined for a bloody reckoning - one shrouded in mystery and lore for decades to come.

The only witness to a desperate act of violence, Suzanne spends the next twenty-nine years trying to disappear. She trades the music and mayhem of her youth for the quiet of the suburbs and the company of her mild-mannered husband Rob. But when her father's sudden death resurrects the troubled past she tried so hard to bury, she leaves it all behind and hits the road in search of answers.

Hitching her fate and Gil's beloved car to two vagabonds who call an old Airstream trailer home, she finds everything she thought she'd lost forever: desire, adventure, and the woman she once wanted to be. But Rob refuses to let her go. Determined to bring her back where she belongs, he chases her across the country - and drives her to a desperation all her own.

Drenched in knock-down drag-out rock and roll, Hot Wax is a raucous, breakneck ride to hell and back - where getting lost might be the only way to find yourself and save your soul.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

M. L. Rio is the author of international bestseller and BookTok sensation If We Were Villains. She holds an MA in Shakespeare Studies from King's College London and Shakespeare's Globe and a PhD in early modern English literature from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research explores representations of madness and mood disorder on the early modern stage. She lives in Washington, D. C. with too many books, too many records, and a mutt called Marlowe.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The highly anticipated new novel from M. L. Rio, bestselling author of If We Were Villains and Graveyard Shift

The summer of 1989. Rock and roll band Gil and the Kills are about to depart for their biggest tour to date. Ten-year-old Suzanne jumps at the chance to join her father, lead guitarist of the band, on the road trip of a lifetime as they criss-cross the country, from dive bars to airplane hangars.

But as their star rises, so do the tensions within the band. Suzanne's presence in the entourage creates a dangerous power struggle that threatens to engulf the entire group. The music has never been better and the fans know it. The crowds roar louder, chanting the lyrics back to them - but the Kills know that any moment they could lose it all.

When their fierce rivalry explodes in a desperate act of bloody violence, Suzanne is the only witness to a murder. Now she must choose who to believe, her father included - and whose truth she is going to tell.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildfire
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1035421178
• ISBN 13: 9781035421176
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Pays-Bas