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From the acclaimed author of Where Did You Sleep Last Night, an
acidly funny, raw, and devastating love story of a decrepit, fallen
film star and the young feminist filmmaker who revives his career.
Set in disparate parts of Los Angeles, Chicken uproariously,
grievously, relates the collision and inevitably ruinous paths of
two incendiary figures. One is the once beautiful and very famous
Parnell Wilde, a maverick actor arrogant in his disastrous fall.
The other is Annabel Wrath, a much younger, idiosyncratic cult
filmmaker with contradictory motives for seeking the older man out.
The two are profoundly altered by their meeting and its harrowing
denouement and manage to save each other from their paths of
torment and dizzying spirals of decline. But when Parnell is
offered the chance to perform in the sequel to Ultraviolence, the
feature film that made him famous - and to work again with its
brilliant but merciless director - he and Annabel are forced to
wrestle with their fractured pasts as the extreme, fleeting, and
dangerous world of fame threatens to divide them.
The twentieth-anniversary edition of Nick Craine’s searing
graphic novel about a legendary Canadian punk band, based on the
feature film by Bruce McDonald and the novel by Michael Turner. Joe
Dick, Billy Tallent, John Oxenburger, and Pipefitter are Hard Core
Logo — Vancouver’s legendary, but now defunct, punk band. Joe
Dick coaxes his former bandmates to overcome personal differences
and reunite for a benefit concert for their ageing punk mentor,
Bucky Haight, who has been shot. But the concert’s not enough for
Joe; he wants the band to hit the road again. For the Hard Cores
this means the beginning of the end, and they come to realize that
they can neither relive nor alter the past. From the pen of hugely
talented Canadian comic artist and illustrator Nick Craine comes a
searing rendition of those Hard Core days and nights. In this
graphic take on the story originally conceived by Michael Turner
and made into a critically acclaimed film by Bruce McDonald, Craine
pits the legendary Hard Cores against a collage-like backdrop of
bars, hotel rooms, the road, and the Canadian Prairies. Featuring a
new introduction by Lynn Crosbie and a tear-out guitar chord book,
Hard Core Logo: Portrait of a Thousand Punks weaves together a
patchwork narrative of found art, dialogue, songs, and incidental
bystanders. Craine skillfully renders his own unique cover-version
of this cult film classic in graphic novel form.
In her first poetry collection in more than a decade, celebrated
novelist and poet Lynn Crosbie creates a sustained and confessional
record of her father's illness. The Corpses of the Future is a
sustained, confessional new collection of poems by Lynn Crosbie. It
tells the story of her father's battle with frontotemporal dementia
and blindness following a stroke. The poems chronologically recount
the poet's conversations and time with her father and capture his
still-astonishing means of communicating. The book's title is his
sardonic remark. Crosbie considers dementia to be a symbolic
language, and as such similar to poetry. The author's attempts to
understand her father's distress, pain, fear, and brave love are
assisted by her understanding of the "negative capability" required
of readers of poetry. This is a harrowing book, with moments of joy
and even levity. It is a collection of poetry about love, and
love's persistence, even under the most unspeakable circumstances.
"A triumph, a contemporary satyrican."--D.A. Powell
This three-way, groundbreaking, e-mail deconstruction of "All
About Eve" is a treasure-trove of poetic forms, cinephile gossip
and literary visitations.
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