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Set in 1993, Nobody Special: The Death of Johnny Salinger
chronicles the last night of the iconic poet as he struggles to end
his haunted past or salvage himself from the crash and burn of
living in a state of desolation and terminal sadness for too long.
Psychologically trapped in his room and hiding from the chaos of a
massive New Years Eve party where over-zealous hangers-on have
turned his home into a hostel for degenerates, Salinger challenges
Fate to decide the outcome of his contemplated suicide as he pens a
poignant epitaph for a generation that celebrated the belief that
it was the last, and laments the 1980's SoCal Punk scene and
lifestyle. Through sincere prose, he exhumes the deep and lyrical
themes of the Punk and Beat Poet subcultures to create a poetic
tribute to the tragic end of a doomed era and the death of an
elusive American Dream. It's an anti-hero's emotional descent into
a white-hot madness to convince the audience in his mind that
everything is special, everything matters, and that "Sometimes,
life's greatest mystery is ourselves."
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