Punk Elegies: True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex, and Trial by Angel Dust

By Allan MacDonell

Punk Elegies arrives like a chemically unstable mixture of Richard Yates and Damon Runyon. Set along Hollywood Boulevard at the birth of punk and the death of the seventies, the thirty-three melancholic, comic laments of Punk Elegies are a mesmerizing concoction of delusion and revelation. A cultural moment, a marriage, and one young man's mind and soul spiral through a series of boundless possibilities and arrive at a harrowing finality. In the end, on the spin cycle of destiny, MacDonell circles alone, naked and bewildered in the labyrinth of a pre-AIDS bathhouse inferno. The first sunrise of the rest of his life dares him to step outside.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940207614
• ISBN13: 9781940207612
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Rare Bird Books, a Barnacle Book
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"