Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band: A Love Story- With Rock 'n' Roll

Alex D. is on the verge of just about everything and consumed by a restless, unanswered longing that rebels against jumping through the hoops of school. Staring down the tunnel to a mundane adulthood, he is appalled by the banality and overwhelming predictability of it all: teachers, parents, and above all his classmates - the seething masses of dutiful zombies and sistren of the Evervirgin Sorority. A bicycle bandit with a DeNiro smile, Alex sports a homemade buzzcut, ditches school to drink and trade stories with his posse of delinquents and rogues, and chases away the blues by assailing his eardrums with the Clash. He shares a brief friendship with the privileged, semi-degenerate Martino, who seems to have mastered the devil-may-care stance Alex covets - until he's busted for drugs. And then comes the sudden entrance of Aidi, who seems to instantly understand, complement, and challenge him. A hundred letters and conversations later, she is magnificent, amazing, irreplaceable ... and leaving for a year in America at the end of the summer.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 10/10/1997
ISBN: 9780802135216
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.53w x 0.54d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/1997 pg. 1471
Publishers Weekly 10/27/1997 pg. 55
Library Journal 11/15/1997 pg. 75
New York Times 01/11/1998 pg. 14
Booklist 11/15/1997 pg. 541