Susan Compo

Life After Death and Other Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Life After Death is a deep dive into the subcultures of Los Angeles and London in the 1980s as glam turned to punk and goth. Susan Compo captures the lives of aspiring musicians, scenesters, and obsessive fans-lives in which reality is a constant threat to cherished illusions, and death, while never far away, is sometimes not the end of the story.

"A dazzling time capsule that, once re-opened, brings back in vivid and lurid detail a counter-cultural moment that spanned cities and continents, uniting lost souls under layers of black hair dye, bleach, mascara, torn fishnets and smeared lipstick at the altar of doomed punk icons and screen goddesses. As perfectly preserved as Dracula rising from his tomb, this cast of outsider poets, prophets, pissheads and punkers do not seem like figments of Susan Compo's vivid imagination but very real manifestations of the rebel spirits who burned Punk's trail from London to LA in the years between Glam and Goth."-Cathi Unsworth, author of Weirdo

"Susan Compo peels back the gloss to expose the seamy, nutty rock 'n' roll underbelly. I've met people like this backstage at the Whisky A Go Go."-Pamela Des Barres

"A pretty girl with a dirty mind."-Charles Bukowski

"A weird and wonderful trip into the post-punk subculture, written in precise, witty, unflinching prose."-Publishers Weekly

"A good, fast-paced read . . . Good insight into men. Susan's done her time."-Henry Rollins

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Visible Spectrum
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393615576
• Artikelnr.: 60437769

Autorenporträt

Susan Compo grew up in Orange County, California, where she published the pioneering "Fanzine for the Blank Generation." She is the author of two story collections, a novel, and nonfiction books about Warren Oates and David Bowie. She lives in Los Angeles.