false 849318 1 Rock has dominated radio, TV, movies, and even the Internet in our media-savvy lives, but its impact on the literary world has often been overlooked. This collection features today's finest writers, including Sherman Alexie, Madison Smartt Bell, T.C. Boyle, Don DeLillo, Roddy Doyle, Nick Hornby, Rick Moody, Tom Perrotta, Salman Rushdie, and Scott Spencer, as well as such up-and-coming writers as Tom Piazza and even musicians such as Steve Earle who have turned their talent for lyric writing to spinning a well-told yarn. In these short stories and excerpts from novels, the reader will recognize such familiar rock icons as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen. Sherman Alexie's "Reservation Blues" follows the rowdy adventures of an all-Native American rock band from the reservation to New York City. In "Ground Beneath Her Feet," Salman Rushdie offers a riff on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in a rock-and-roll setting. Scott Spencer's "Rich Man's Table" focuses on the illegitimate offspring of a Dylan-like singer and a former Greenwich Village hippie. At times raucous, at times poignant, the stories in this collection celebrate in their own way the timeless spirit that is the heart of rock and roll. 834831 1 12 2004 The Best in Rock Fiction total:4|5:0|4:1|3:3|2:0|1:0| 4 13 7 3 3 0 false false Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 19:00:25 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 00:21:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 17:21:03 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 17:24:01 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 01 23:12:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 24 16:34:55 -0700 2009
Some stories I just couldn't get in to, but I liked the majority of them (about 65% -- just enough that I wouldn't want to give away the book). My big gripe, though, is the editing -- mi...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Oct 13 16:51:18 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 16:51:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 22 11:31:53 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 18:13:46 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Dec 19 15:48:09 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 15:48:11 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Mar 10 21:04:01 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 21:04:01 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=849318