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From Blue to Black

From Blue to Black

by JoelLane (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

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Synopsis

"A dark, precise insinuating novel that rewrites pop history into something like a perfect wish come disconcertingly true."--Dennis CooperIn the early 1990s, a band called 'Triangle' is a cult item on the post-punk music scene. Karl is the brilliant but troubled vocalist, haunted by past violence and present danger, torn between chasing fame and desiring oblivion, between men and women, music and silence. As the band makes waves with the obligatory alcohol, sex and blurred reality, Karl starts to fall apart. Based on the life of Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division, "From Blue to Black" is a passionate novel about rock music and its world.Born in 1963, Joel Lane lives in Birmingham, England. He is a prize-winning poet.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 20 May 2000
ISBN 10: 1852426187
ISBN 13: 9781852426187

Media Reviews
?Lane?s poetical powers of description reveal themselves? a jet-black, strangely plausible imaginary chapter in rock mythology? The Times ?Powerful first novel? the sort of rock ?n? roll novel that contains all the elements you might expect ? sex, alcohol, desperation and suicidal despair ? without ever resorting to clich? or stereotype? Gay Times ?A dark, precise, insinuating novel that rewrites pop history into something like a perfect wish come disconcertingly true. Joel Lane
s prose manages the impressive trick of being both reportorial and objective, and as feverishly romantic as a piece of fan mail? Dennis Cooper 'Joel Lane's debut is that rare thing: a novel about the darker edges of the rock business that carries the stamp of absolute authenticity * New Statesman *
Lane's poetical powers of description reveal themselves... a jet-black, strangely plausible imaginary chapter in rock mythology * The Times *
Author Bio
Born in Exeter in 1963 but brought up in Birmingham, Joel Lane is a graduate of Cambridge University. He won an Eric Gregory Award for Poetry in 1993, and a collection of his short stories, The Earth Wire, was published in 1994. With Steve Bishop, he has edited Birmingham Noir a collection of crime stories set in the Midlands.