That Summertime Sound

ISBN: 1576875202

Author: Mathew Specktor

Condition: New

Im so antisocial, I got a disastrous attitude (Something something someone-I could never work this part out) was my kinda dude! Im proper primitive, true caveman, Neanderthal!Ill scramble your brains for breakfast, leave paintings on your walls!I doubted I couldve said it any better myself, what it was like to be alive and confused, so happy I could kill someone and so angry I could laugh.Freshman summer, 1986: You think youre looking for happiness and youre in love with the worlds best and most obscure band. Your roommate tells you both reside in Columbus, Ohio. These arent the first fantasies youve indulged. Blind faith, after all, may be your one true religion. In the thrall of dead philosophers and mad prophets on the radio, you charge off on a group pilgrimage to Anywhere, Everywhere, Nowhere, USA. You still believe in sex, drugs, and rock and roll-but youre not sure in what order. Youre digging in the crates for that one true thing.You know something is happening, but you dont know what it is.That Summertime Sound is the liner note to that perfect summer single and all its aching echoes, written with the gimlet eye of Jim Thompson, Kazuo Ishiguros sense of wonder, and a true believers ear for music.Matthew Specktors That Summertime Sound isnt so much a book as it is a door, hinged in memory, and swinging wide to every tenderhearted throb of lust and longing and precocious regret still there where you left it, at the periphery of adulthood. How does the novel perform this trick? By prose as lucid and classical as Graham Greenes in The End of the Affair, yet saturated in detail such that if youd never had the luck to outgrow an 80s teenage dream in Columbus, Ohio, youll feel you had after reading it. ?-Jonathan Lethem