Now That I Am Gone: A Memoir Beyond Recall
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Now That I Am Gone: A Memoir Beyond Recall
By (Author) Allan MacDonell
Rare Bird Books
Rare Bird Books
19th February 2019
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Relationships and families: advice and issues
The afterlife, reincarnation and past lives
Autobiography: general
Media, entertainment, information and communication industries
Physical Properties
Paperback
264
Width 139mm, Height 215mm
Description
Do you ever look forward to what life will be like once you are dead
Functioning as a double-rainbow bridge connecting the ordinary now with the stack of memories that create the past and the netherworld ahead, Now That I Am Gone is the memoir of an everymans existence as it goes on without him. His wife, his friends, his dogs, they all navigate to fill in the empty spaces he has left behind. As his ashes cool, old rivals and older paramours swoop in to claim his spoils.
His life has flashed before his eyes. His regrets, what he will miss, what he is happy to leave behind, all the ways he had been hoping to departall of this and more he has confessed. The only chapter left is to reveal what happens to him in the place he goes once he is gone, and that hidden knowledge is exactly what comes next.
Reviews
"Funny in both senses of the word: Humorous and strange."
--Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Punk Elegies
Set in the glittering ruins of late 1970s Hollywood, MacDonell's coming-of-age tale tracks the rise and folly of L.A. punk. Searing, comic and self-immolating, Elegies ultimately becomes a love letter to lost time.
--Evan Wright, author of Generation Kill and Hella Nation
Sometimes dizzying but always exciting, this punk memoir is a microcosm of a musical moment.
--Foreword
...a beautifully written book that is one part punk culture and all parts gut-throat memoir.
--Dangerous Minds
...an honest glimpse into Los Angeles' First Wave of Punk...cannot recommend it enough.
--Teenage News
...the only book in recent memory that can sit on the shelf along with the other classic books on LA punk--Lexicon Devil: The Fast Time and Short Life of Darby Crash or Marc Spitz's We Got The Neutron Bomb...
--Huffington Post
Praise for Prisoner of X
A luridly entertaining memoir... MacDonell strives to balance the sleaze with dry wit and genteel wordplay and often strikes gold.
--Rolling Stone
Entertaining... As former Hustler editor MacDonell's memoir makes clear, the porn mag exists in its own alternate universe.
--Spin
Hours of guilty pleasure that pass like seconds...Indulge before the restraining orders pull this great book off store shelves.
--Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and Choke
R. Crumb crossed with William S. Burroughs and the satiric outrage of Hunter S. Thompson.
--Evan Wright, author of Generation Kill
Scabrous, cleverly funny new memoir... MacDonell lays the whack-off industry bare... All that's missing is a scratch-and-sniff centerfold.
--BlackBook
The first must-read book on porn.
--Luke Ford, author of A History of X: 100 Years of Sex in Film and XXX-Communicated
Author Bio
Allan MacDonell is the author of Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine and Punk Elegies: True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex and Trial by Angel Dust. MacDonell studied creative writing at San Francisco State University. He was a defining contributor to L.A.'s Slash magazine. Since the turn of the millennium, MacDonell has been separating real from fake on Internet platforms like Buzz Media, Spin Media, Participant Media, and marijuana news-and-lifestyle site Kindland. He is currently director of TheSkeeve.com.
