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Devin Predire is your typical eighth grader who only cares about becoming the lead singer of his friend's heavy metal band, winning fights at Gracefield Junior High, girls, and avoiding an aiding and abetting wrap for the murder of one of his closest buddies. When the band gathers one night to rehearse, Colin Mulroney arrives, and the group decides to turn out the lights and pretend no one's home. The four sneak out of the house while Colin stands outside begging to be let in. Fed up with Colin's childish ways, Ethan, one of the band members decides to take out his aggressions by beating Colin with a fiberglass pole. Much to Ethan's chagrin, Simon steps in before Colin is beaten to a bloody pulp. Colin becomes the sacrificial lamb to any ill intended men they encounter along the way. After failing miserably at the school talent show, the band decides to drown their sorrows at Alex's house. Opening the door for what should be the pizza delivery guy, The Band finds Colin badly beaten, neck broken.

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A J.D. Salinger-styled story of teenage wasteland where disaffected, role-playing metalheads grapple for a sense of purpose through the brutal transition of adolescence. Nick Sconce's vivid description of life for these gifted, but dangerously misguided youth examines how the hyper-sexed and violent fantasy worlds of confused teenagers can bleed into their everyday lives, without Sconce losing sight of the humanity behind each character. -- Charles Martin "writer for the Oklahoma Gazette and author of the dominant hand: The Unauthorized Story of Jim Jacobs and the Cult that Saved the World" Nick Sconce captures perfectly the stunned lope through life of teenage males junk cultured to the eyeballs, and forever chasing a buzz to make it less junky. If it wasn't for the mercifully recurring dollops of insightful humor page after page, you'd have to come away from this book gravely sick in the digestives about the future of American kids, especially given recessionary times and the chipping-away destruction such times are going to put on wisecracking junior headbangers like these. -- Martin Popoff "Author of 27 titles including Gettin' Tighter: Deep Purple '68 - '76; All Access: The Art & History Of The Backstage Pass; and Ye Olde Metal: 1978" Pewter, Murder and Loaded Dice isn't a happy story filled with fond childhood memories and coming of age moments. This is a story about reality from the perspective of the adolescent, which as we all firmly recall, can contain gracious moments of innocent fun, and horrible memories of social awkwardness amongst one's peers. Nick Sconce has told a tale here that isn't Harry Potter, but rather an in depth cross between coming of age, dark humor and social naivet that can lead to some unsavory, but memorable moments for both the characters and the reader. This isn't a happy story, but it makes up for it with intrigue, humor, and a rich character development that hearkens to the classic film, Stand By Me. -- Cody Plucker "All Metal Resource" "Nick Sconce captures perfectly the stunned lope through life of teenage males junk cultured to the eyeballs, and forever chasing a buzz to make it less junky. If it wasn't for the mercifully recurring dollops of insightful humor page after page, you'd have to come away from this book gravely sick in the digestives about the future of American kids, especially given recessionary times and the chipping-away destruction such times are going to put on wisecracking junior headbangers like these." -- Martin Popoff "Author of 27 titles including Gettin' Tighter: Deep Purple '68 - '76; All Access: The Art & History Of The Backstage Pass; and Ye Olde Metal: 1978"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780881001471
  • Publisher: National Writers Press
  • Publisher Imprint: National Writers Press
  • Height: 218 mm
  • No of Pages: 362
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 145 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0881001473
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 590 gr


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