Dance prone
Coventry, David, 1969-2021
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During their 1985 tour, two events of hatred and stupidity forever change the lives of a band's four members. Neues Bauen, a post-hardcore Illinois group homing in on their own small fame, head on with frontman Conrad Wells sexually assaulted and guitarist Tone Seburg wounded by gunshot. The band staggers forth into the American landscape, traversing time and investigating each of their relationships with history, memory, authenticity, violence and revelling in transcendence through the act of art. With decades passed and compelled by his wife's failing health to track down Tone, Conrad flies to North Africa where her brother is rumoured to be hiding with a renowned artist from their past. There he instead meets various characters including his former drummer, Spence. Amongst the sprawl and shout of Morocco, the men attempt to recall what happened to them during their lost years of mental disintegration and emotional poverty.
Main title:
Dance prone / David Coventry.
Author:
Coventry, David, 1969-, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2021.
Collation:
320 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2020.
ISBN:
9781509839452 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
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BRN:
1226651
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