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Alex Austin

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born
Newark, The United States
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member since
January 2008


About this author

I'm a Los Angeles-based journalist and teacher. My two novels, The Red Album of Asbury Park Remixed(November 2009), and The Perfume Factory (June 2005), have gotten excellent reviews. In 2008, Writers Digest awarded The Perfume Factory an honorable mention for Mainstream Fiction. The New York Book Festival 2012 awarded an Honorable Mention to The Red Album of Asbury Park Remixed (See reviews of both books below).

THE RED ALBUM OF ASBURY PARK REMIXED

“It is simply an amazing work of fiction… a smart look inside the topsy-turvy world of the rock and roll lifestyle and the futility, hope, danger, love and mystery of survival in general. The Red Album Of Asbury Park is a book you won’t be able to put down.”—John Pfeiffer, Aquarian Magazine

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A terrific new review of The Red Album of Asbury Park came out 4/30/09 on http://www.jerseysmarts.com

Below are some excerpts from other reviews.

“It is simply an amazing work of fiction… a smart look inside the topsy-turvy world of the rock and roll lifestyle and the futility, hope, danger, love and mystery of survival in general. The Red Album Of Asbury Park is a book you won’t be able to put... Read more of this blog post »
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Published on April 30, 2009 12:06 • 210 views • Tags: album, alex, asbury, austin, bukowski, fante, music, park, pop, red, rock, roll, springsteen
Average rating: 4.40 · 35 ratings · 16 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
The Red Album of Asbury Par...
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
Heavy Feather Review 1.1
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4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012
The Perfume Factory
4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings4 editions
The Greatest Lover in the W...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1956

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The Red Album of Asbury Park (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Apr 30, 2009 11:36am
Description: Against the backdrop of a fabled town in trouble, 22-year-old musician Sam Nesbitt struggles to rid himself of his personal demons, past and present,as he pursues the rock 'n' roll dream.

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