Primeros reseñadoresRobert Duncan

Thomas Ransom, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to early 1970s New York City is left to his own devices by neglectful parents, and spends much of his childhood shadowing his older, criminally-inclined half-brother and roaming New York with hard-drinking teenage pals. Tom eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band, and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that invented punk—only to return to New York, at the height of the 70s bacchanal, and crash. But it isn’t music that saves him. It’s a soft-spoken painter, who turns out to be the most outrageous character of all. Life-long rock & roll obsessive Robert Duncan's debut novel is a rip-snortin' coming-of-age story. With echoes of Almost Famous and Just Kids, LOUDMOUTH tracks an impassioned musician and writer out among the punks, hippies, and wild geniuses of rock when music was the center of the world. Duncan was barely out of his teens when he started as a writer for the mordant and influential music magazine Creem, becoming its managing editor at 22. A self-proclaimed accidental journalist, he went on to contribute to Rolling Stone, Circus, Life, and dozens of other publications. In the process, Duncan became a rock Zelig: he shares tales and fried shrimp with a young, scrawny Bruce Springsteen, while driving him around Detroit; he introduces the Clash’s Mick Jones and Joe Strummer to a broken-down piano player of dubious ability, leading to a hilariously disastrous recording session with the band; he works alongside his friend Lester Bangs and witnessed his tragic spiral, before discovering the legendary critic dead, at 33, of an OD in the NYC apartment next door. These experiences, and many others, provide the fuel for LOUDMOUTH, making it what Brian Jonestown Massacre musician Joel Gion calls, “A sonic wail of a tale about the youthful beginnings of one of the Mount Rushmore ‘heads’ of rock 'n' roll journalism." Additional High Praise for LOUDMOUTH “LOUDMOUTH is, as advertised, a loud and brash trip that takes you through the hellish halls of childhood and adolescence before delivering you to the sweet salvation of rock and roll music and all that rides alongside it. The story is majorly compelling—funny, tender, and very very honest. Read this book immediately if you like truth, drugs, generation gaps, guitars, and lifelong quests for freedom and kicks." —Craig Finn, singer/songwriter, The Hold Steady “This picaresque, coming-of-age novel, about a boy who looks for answers in rock ‘n’ roll, but finds them in the love of an extraordinary woman, is sad, serious, funny and, in the end, ridiculously moving.” —Sylvie Simmons, New York Times bestselling author of Face It: Debbie Harry, Too Weird For Ziggy, and Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes