Hell, it gave ME the vapors a bit, but nonetheless, it is compelling, as train wrecks usually are. It is all told in language and descriptions which would give your mother the vapors. They all inhabit a noir world of hyper sex, relentless drinking and continual drug use, where the music is all, and provides a background for their strange and messed up lives. She and her sister Lux come from a bizarre family whose mother is a religious fanatic and whose father has given up and is mostly not there. The other narrator is a female drummer of The Bastards,which is an all girl rock and roll band that used to be hugely popular. He is there because his wife threw his butt out of their California house about ten years ago when his behavior deteriorated beyond endurance. The first is Lew, a drunk, a druggie, a sex-crazed middle age guy living in Buckeye, Colorado, working as a ‘collector’ cough cough if you get my drift for a shadowy Thursday Man. It is told in two first person narratives. Well, it’s about this guy, and ummm these rock and roll sisters and ummm about a suicide and ….” About dysfunctional families and desperation. About thought locked in the prison of debilitation and sorrow. This is a big, sprawling mess of a book, a mess about drugs, alcohol and rock and roll.
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