No Names

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Inspired by the iconic punk scene of the late '70's, No Names blurs the lines of affection and sexuality in a haunting tale of desire, hope, and loss.

Mike and Pete were "no names," two working-class boys lost in the shuffle of their stratified town, brought together by their love of music. By 1978, their punk band was blazing across the underground scene. Now in 1993, Mike is a hermit living alone on a dot of an island in the North Atlantic. When a mysterious letter from an unlikely fan named Isaac arrives, he's pulled right back into the pain he's spent over a decade running from.

Isaac longs for an escape from his lonely teenage life. A chance discovery of the No Names' only album catapults him into obsession over the god-like rockers and the tantalizing possibility of connection.

As their stories collide in a tangled web, mistakes breed consequences that echo through the decades like the furious reverberations of a power chord.

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Praise for No Names

"Greg Hewett has created a magnificent, tender punk musician who has a little problem with violence, who is innocent in his experience; a boy/man whose music illuminates his passions, his passions fueling his music. I know the single album the No Names made is a fictional LP, but I believe in it! The music and Hewett's terrific hero live on after the final page." --Jane Hamilton, author of The Excellent Lombards

Praise for Greg Hewett

"[Hewett's work] is full of wonderfully quiet musings on vision and memory, cogent observations about longing and loss." --Lambda Literary Review

"Through his plainspoken language which is, at times, conversational and, at times, confessional we are reminded of our own desires, those things for which we do still burn." --Cleaver

"Complex, yet simple, resisting efforts at reductionist understandings of what comprises a man." --Signature

"Hewett is a master architect of the poetic suite, and his house contains many mansions." --D.A. Powell, author of Useless Landscape, Or A Guide for Boys

"Hewett aims deeper, darker. The stakes are high for this poet and his gamble pays off stunningly." --Kazim Ali, author of Northern Light

"Always, [Hewett] seeks the pulse of the unsayable prime beneath words, the visible vision in 'blindness deep and far.'" --Diane Seuss, author of Modern Poetry

Author Bio

Greg Hewett is the author of five volumes of poetry, including Blindsight (Coffee House Press 2016). The recipient of Fulbright fellowships to Denmark and Norway, he has also been a fellow at the Camargo Foundation in France, and is Professor of English at Carleton College. No Names is his first novel. He lives with his husband in Minneapolis.