Loudmouth: A Novel

ISBN-10: 1941110924
ISBN-13: 9781941110928
Series: Loudmouth
Category: Loudmouth [musical group]
Pages: 248
Language: English
Published: 2020-10-06
Publisher: Mitten Press
Author: Robert Duncan

Description

Thomas Ransom, an excitable white boy--son of the Jim Crow South, New England prep school and a bourbon-soaked Irish Catholicism--gets swept up in the race-mixing, class-baiting, death-defying world of rock 'n' roll, first as a singer, then as editor of Creem, the magazine that invented punk. Along the way, his mother attacks him with a carving knife, a lover's lover attacks him with a torch, he yo-yos from New York to Detroit and back, before landing, broke, in San Francisco. He loses his hot-rodding brother to cancer and his friend Lester Bangs to OD. He careens through Cleveland in a junker with Bruce, flies on a private jet with Keith, hangs in the studio with the Clash, gets drunk, gets high and hits bottom -- before stumbling on a love that transcends fame and fortune and transforms his life. Full of the famous, almost famous and just plain freaky -- Just Kids meets Jesus' Son -- Loudmouth is wild, funny and poignant, a novel of growing up while falling down.