Rotten in Denmark by Jim Pollard (.ePUB)
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Rotten in Denmark by Jim Pollard
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Overview: f you know there was more to the seventies than boogie nights and flares but can’t quite remember what, then this is the book to fill in the gaps. The year is 1978, the place is Beech Park, Southeast London, and punk is all the rage. Frankie Dane teams up with his rich, vertically challenged school friend Cal Carter to form the Go-Karts. The two are “hailed by the critics as the bards of the new wave”, Dane playing “the supposed new McCartney to his new Lennon”, whilst Carter binges on sex and drugs as their single Rotten in Denmark tops the charts. Within two years Cal is dead of an overdose, and Dane looks back over 20 years to tell the unfinished story of the Go-Karts and his relationship with Carter, who has subsequently become enshrined as one of rock’s icons. Rotten in Denmark is Jim Pollard’s first novel, a funny and assured story of Carter and Dane, growing up amidst dreams of rock stardom in late 1970s’ London. Pollard has a wonderful ear for the world of pubs, drugs, gigs, acne and adolescent sex that runs throughout the book, as Frankie Dane negotiates his way into middle age and marriage to Cal’s sister. Frankie tries to write an autobiography rather than an album in his middle age, in a bid to say “all the things I wish I’d said to Cal before he died”. However, Rotten in Denmark is more than just punk nostalgia. As the novel unfolds, both Frankie and Cal are not quite what they seem, and there’s a neat twist in the final pages of this promising first novel.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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