Ebook {Epub PDF} Meat is Murder by Joe Pernice

The majority of that book consists of Pernice's MFA thesis. In , as a part of Continuum Publishing's 33 1/3 series of short books about some of rock music's most important and influential albums, Pernice issued Meat Is Murder, a novella about suicide and an almost unhealthy obsession with the Smiths' album of the same name. Joe Perniece's impression of Meat Is Murder is somewhere between Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude and a version of The Wonder Years set in the John Hughes universe. It's a pretty narrow tale of a standard issue, suburban white heterosexual teenage American sexual quest/5. A Catholic high school near Boston in A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuatio.

Joe Pernice is the author of Meat is Murder ( avg rating, ratings, 68 reviews, published ), It Feels So Good When I Stop ( avg rating, Meat Is Murder was optioned for a film adaptation, and in Riverhead Books published Pernice's first full-length novel, It Feels So Good When I Stop. Pernice also recorded a companion album of popular songs cited in the novel, including an original tune by the Young Accuser, a fictive rock band the book's leading character fronted as a. In the little intro to this book, Joe Pernice claims that his entry into the 33 1/3 series is just that, and he goes on to prove it by putting forth -- as opposed to a retrospective surrounding a certain album -- a novella loosely based around the influence of the Smiths's Meat Is Murder in a young dude's life.

The Velvet Underground and Nico, by Joe Harvard. Grace, by Daphne Brooks. Electric Ladyland, by John Perry. Live at the Apollo, by Douglas Wolk. OK Computer, by Dai Griffiths. Aqualung, by Allan Moore. Meat is Murder. Joe Pernice. The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc. 80 Maiden Lane, New York, NY The Continuum. A Catholic high school near Boston in A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuatio. Joe Pernice describes the book as fiction, but it seems more like somewhat fictional autobiography. Somewhat fictional, autobiographical, teenage memoir. Framed by the adult protagonist, hungover and returning from playing a gig in London, having an urge to listen to Meat Is Murder and plunging into a flashback that lasts for the rest of the.