The Alternative Hero

✍ Scribed by Tim Thornton

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
• Year: 2008;2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 257 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

What do you do if you're a failed music fanzine writer in your early thirties with a dead-end job, and the best moment of your life occurred when you went to your first Thieving Magpies gig as a teenager and suddenly you "belonged" in a way you never had before, and the worst moment of your life occurred about six years later when Lance Webster, the Magpies' lead singer, self-destructed on stage before your eyes--basically taking you with him--and just today you've discovered that Lance lives down the street from you? A hilarious view of friendship, hero worship, and the full-blast power of music to help us become, at the very least, who we would like to think we are.