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

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"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 1970s, 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

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"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, Generation Kill and Hella Nation

Author Bio

Allan MacDonell is the author of Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine and was a defining voice of the groundbreaking punk periodical Slash magazine. While writing for Slash, he also co-invented slam-dancing. MacDonell lives in Los Angeles.