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| Title | : | Not Fade Away |
| Author | : | Jim Dodge |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 2007 by Grove Press (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. The United States Of America. Literature. American. Contemporary |
Jim Dodge
ebook | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 4 | 757 Users | 54 Reviews
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A road trip novel from the author of Fup that "reads like Kerouac's On the Road as it might have been written by Hunter S. Thompson" (The Plain Dealer).George Gastin is a Bay Area tow-truck operator who wrecks cars as part of an insurance scam. One of the cars he is hired to demolish is a snow-white Cadillac that was supposed to be a present for the Big Bopper, who died in the Iowa plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. Gastin has a change of heart and takes off in the car, heading for Texas where the Bopper is buried. Armed with a thousand hits of Benzedrine and chased by adversaries real and imagined, Gastin navigates a road trip that covers many miles and states of mind.
Traveling in time from the Beat era to the dawn of the sixties, from the coffeehouses of North Beach to the open plains of America, Gastin picks up some extraordinary hitchhikers: the self-proclaimed "world's greatest salesman," the Reverend Double-Gone Johnson, and a battered housewife with a box of old 45s. As the miles and sleepless hours roll by, Gastin's trip becomes a blur of fantasy and reality fueled by a soundtrack of classic rock 'n' roll.
"His surreal voyage into the chaos of night carries him into the heart of America's darkest psychological landscapes. Not Fade Away shakes, rattles, and rolls." --San Francisco Chronicle
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| Original Title: | Not Fade Away |
| ISBN: | 0802197647 (ISBN13: 9780802197641) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4 From 757 Users | 54 ReviewsAssess Based On Books Not Fade Away
I think one of my favorites a beautifully crafted story of all things here and gone.a druggie 'wrecker' for insurance scams decides to 'save' a classic car. adventures & hilarity ensue.
Slick pulp-noir road novel about 50s rock and roll, redemption and something something maybe. Unfortunately, I lost interest in the trip a little while before Mr Dodge did.
Enjoyed most of the novel very much except when it went into a sorta hippie hallucination side track that is prevalent to certain US writers of a certain age ( and drug intake.)
Don't drink, take drugs and drive people; unless you are a devil-may-care literary character in a stolen car. In which case, just keep on trucking with your adventures peppered with strange characters. My slightly longer review can be found here: http://fictionalfix.blogspot.com/2018...
Great hitchiking adventure! A bit aimless, but it moves like a leopard with the soul of Kilimanjaro. Like a potato its got lots of good bits, but the whole is maybe a bit beige. Reads like loads of short story ideas, so maybe its more like crisps.
I didn't like this one nearly as much as Stone Junction. I skimmed a lot toward the end when I realized it was just the author blathering on in a non-entertaining stream of consciousness method. bleh.
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