Driving Stevie Fracasso
- Bib ID:
- 8560092
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Divola, Barry, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales
- Description:
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- Sydney, New South Wales : HarperCollins Publishers, 2021
- 1 online resource (352 pages)
- ISBN:
- 9781460713082 (EPUB)
- Summary:
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Two estranged brothers, one stolen car and a road trip from Texas to New York. What could possibly go wrong? For fans of Nick Hornby, David Nicholls and Jonathan Tropper. Jaded music journalist Rick McLennan knows his life is going south when he loses his job, his apartment and his long-term girlfriend all on the same day. But then he is thrown a lifeline - a commission to write the story of his ex-rock-star brother, Stevie, and drive him from Austin, Texas, to New York to play one final gig. One small problem: the brothers haven't spoken in thirty years. Rick knows it's a bad idea. But he's out of choices. So he gets behind the wheel of a beaten-up 1985 Nissan Stanza and drives towards his destiny. He's about to find everything he didn't know he was missing. It's September 2001. From award-winning journalist and author Barry Divola comes a glorious, music-infused, rollicking road-trip novel - think High Fidelity meets The Big Lebowski meets The Darjeeling Limited. A smart, funny and wholly endearing story about how, though we may at times lose ourselves along the way, the road always leads back to family and the things that bring us joy. 'Of course this road trip comes with a top-quality mix-tape - it's by Barry Divola - but it's the layers to this story, and its humour and its heart, that make this journey irresistible.' - Nick Earls 'This book is the super f***ing gnarly lead break of rock-lit novels.' - John Birmingham 'Driving Stevie Fracasso reads as great as the fifth Replacements album sounds. It's a New York-centric, music-obsessive tale of humour and poignancy, the literary equivalent of hanging with folks who think going to church is finding a record fair. A+' - Stuart Coupe An interpreter of the listening experience forced to listen to experience? This novel will be read in between flippin' records. Go for the ride. You'll be spent, you'll be grateful.' - Tim Rogers 'If I could go back in time and take a different fork in the road, I would have lived like Barry Divola. But poor choices can't be unmade, and if Driving Stevie Fracasso is the only ride available I'll take it. Damn you, Barry Divola, you've been having everyone else's fun.' - Malcolm Knox.
- Subject:
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- Brothers -- Fiction
- Music journalists -- United States -- Fiction
- Rock musicians -- United States -- Fiction
- Frères -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Journalistes musicaux -- États-Unis -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Musiciens rock -- États-Unis -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Brothers
- Contemporary lifestyle fiction
- Contemporary romance
- Family life fiction
- Fiction - General
- Fiction - Humorous
- Fiction - Literary
- Fiction & related items
- Fiction: general & literary
- Humorous fiction
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Music - General
- Music journalists
- Rock musicians
- Travel
- United States -- Description and travel -- Fiction
- États-Unis -- Descriptions et voyages -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- United States
- Other authors/contributors:
- HarperCollins
- Available From:
- Ingram Content Group
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2021
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