From Up River and for One Night Only
- Publisher
- Now or Never Publishing Co.
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2016
- Category
- Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781988098074
- Publish Date
- Apr 2016
- List Price
- $21.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781988098111
- Publish Date
- Apr 2016
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
Meet The Gorgons The Legionnaires Chicken Treblinka The Statistics . . . Meet Dee, Gordyn, Em, and Jay, indecisive members of the greatest New Wave band to ever spring from River Bend City. Before they graduate from high school and flee a mill town that’s seen better days, these ambitious friends (two sets of siblings) aim to make something from nothing as a test-run for planned careers of total glamour in New York City. Set between Labour Day 1980 and a Battle of the Bands contest in February 1981, From Up River and for One Night Only traces the unsure but determined steps of the gang’s hopeful act of creation. The darkly comic and autobiographical story memorably captures the detours, setbacks, compromises, ethical quandaries, and illicit opportunities encountered along the twisty highway to the band’s fifteen-and-a half minutes of fame.
About the author
Brett Josef Grubisic teaches contemporary literature at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His most recent book of fiction is This Location of Unknown Possibilities (2014). He is the author of Understanding Beryl Bainbridge, co-author (with David L. Chapman) of American Hunks: The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860—1970 and co-editor (with Andrea Cabajsky) of National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada (WLU Press, 2010).
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This Location of Unknown Possibilities
National Plots
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American Hunks
The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860-1970
The Age of Cities
Carnal Nation
Brave New Sex Fictions
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New Queer Male Fiction