It is all told in language and descriptions which would give your mother the vapors. They all inhabit a noir world of hyper sex, relentless drinking and continual drug use, where the music is all, and provides a background for their strange and messed up lives. She and her sister Lux, come from a bizarre family whose mother is a religious fanatic and whose father has given up and is mostly not there. The other narrator is a female drummer of The Bastards,which is an all girl rock and roll band, hugely popular, named Sarah. He is there because his wife threw his butt out of their California house about ten years ago when his behavior deteriorated beyond endurance. The first is Lew, a drunk, a druggie, a sex-crazed middle age guy living in Buckeye, Colorado, working as a 'collector' cough cough if you get my drift for a shadowy Thursday Man. It is told in two first person narratives. Well, it's about this guy, and ummm these rock and roll sisters and ummm about a suicide and. About dysfunctional families and desperation. About thought locked in the prison of debilitation and sorrow. This is a big, sprawling mess of a book, a mess about drugs, alcohol and rock and roll.
"Sleepeth Not, the Bastard" is a romp for this generation, an homage to those that came before, and a warning for those that follow. Part drama, part dark comedy, part rock 'n roll epic, with a copious and perhaps endless helping of sex, drugs, and infamy. Each person influencing the other in one massive string of events escalating and culminating at the end of their respective worlds whether those worlds be of mental, emotional, psychological, or delusional origin. "Sleepeth Not, the Bastard" is a story about people, each one steadily climbing towards a foreseeable yet undeniable end.
What transpires from then on is a continuing snowball effect that will inevitably lead to the cataclysmic destruction of one family and others as the world continues to busy itself around them in seamless melancholy. Separated but not divorced, his wife Autumn finally tracks Lew down, begging him to come home to help take care of their identity-in-crisis daughter Zoey.īut when Lew's friend from high school, Sarah Fox, having lived the life of a drummer in the all-but extinct rock band "The Bastards" returns to town stalked by a rumored "Resurrection Tour", Lew's world truly becomes a thing of legend.and doubt. Several years later, Lew, his father, currently working for a faceless loan shark, has dipped into a drug and lust-filled method of cope. thus reads the final words of High School Senior Joshua Feranna. "The gravity of fate is nothing in comparison to the fleeting warmth of a loved one's last kiss."
This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN13: 9781500778309.
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