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The Smiths' Meat is Murder (Paperback, Widescreen Version ed.)
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The Smiths' Meat is Murder (Paperback, Widescreen Version ed.)
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A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides,
gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and
incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl
(Allison), with a band (The Smiths) and with an album, Meat is
Murder, that was so raw, so vivid and so melodic that you could
cling to it like a lifeboat in a storm. In this brilliant novella
Joe Pernice tells the story of an asthmatic kid's discovery of Meat
is Murder. Here is a short exceropt: One morning as I was jogging
my way past the bronze plaque commemorating the deaths of one
student and one motorcyclist, my necktie flapping like a windsock,
Ray floored the brake pedal of his Dodge as he closed in on me.
Fifty mile an hour traffic came to a screeching, nearly murderous
halt behind him. He leaned over and rolled down the passenger side
window in one fluid motion. He dispensed with formalities while I
marveled at the audacity of his driving and, tossing something at
me, winked and said, Here. I'm going to kill myself. He pegged the
gas, leaving a surprisingly good patch of rubber for such a shitty
car. In the gutter, sugared with sand put down during the winter's
last snow, I saw written in red felt ink on masking tape stuck to a
smoky-clear cassette: Smiths: Meat.
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