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Destroy All Monsters

✍ Scribed by Jackson, Jeff

Book ID
110399380
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tongue
English
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374718367

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✦ Synopsis

The last rock-n-roll novel: a dark valentine to small-town music scenes everywhere

An epidemic of violence is sweeping the country: musicians are being murdered onstage in the middle of their sets by members of their audience. Are these random copycat killings, or is something more sinister at work? Has music itself become corrupted in a culture where everything is available, everybody is a creative, and attention spans have dwindled to nothing?

With its cast of ambitious bands, yearning fans, and enigmatic killers, Destroy All Monsters tells a haunted and romantic story of overdue endings and unlikely beginnings that will resonate with anybody who's ever loved rock 'n' roll.

Like a classic vinyl single, Destroy All Monsters has two sides, which can be read in any order. At the heart of Side A, "My Dark Ages," is Xenie, a young woman who is repulsed by the violence of the epidemic but who still finds herself drawn deeper into the...

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