Product Description
It's a long weekend in summer. Costa and his friends go from party to party till the morning after-parties start. There is sex and drugs and beats if you can guest-list your way into enough of them. But looming over the horizon are the weekdays of prefab choices between the hopeless and the impossible, between this little bit of your identity and that. Nothing on TV reflects your reality, and the life it had promised is getting even farther.
This is a contemporary novel, telling of twenty-somethings creating their own world when everything is controlled by somebody else. A life of after-hours parties contrasted against the background of the larger society, and the problems and decisions facing young adults. The funny dialogue and the graphic sex hint at inner conflicts--between the identities laid before them, and that which compels them. Their reactions range from amused apathy to vitriolic dissent.
About 57000 words.
Note: Adult content. Graphic sex, language and drug usage.
This is a contemporary novel, telling of twenty-somethings creating their own world when everything is controlled by somebody else. A life of after-hours parties contrasted against the background of the larger society, and the problems and decisions facing young adults. The funny dialogue and the graphic sex hint at inner conflicts--between the identities laid before them, and that which compels them. Their reactions range from amused apathy to vitriolic dissent.
About 57000 words.
Note: Adult content. Graphic sex, language and drug usage.
From the Author
I write about now;
not some distant, costumes-and-ball-gowns past, and not some remote,
laser-guns-and-aliens future. This is written from the perspective of finishing high school or university, and having nothing in front of you! And it's to do with the constant struggle between doing what you want, being who you want, and having to hammer that into shape to fit what is expected of you.
It's the constant fight between what drives you internally, and what society says you are/want. The conflict between the innate, and the conditioned.
But if you think that's too heavy, the sex and the jokes should carry you along fine.
If you've ever been into a fringe music scene, or anything else outside the mainstream (socially, culturally, politically, recreationally), then my books are for you. They're skateboarding, not baseball; downtown, not suburbia.
"A Beat..." took close to three years of my life, often full-time, on top of a day-job--and that's after years of writing! It's a lot more fun than my earlier work, and my next novel is continuing along the same direction.
It's the constant fight between what drives you internally, and what society says you are/want. The conflict between the innate, and the conditioned.
But if you think that's too heavy, the sex and the jokes should carry you along fine.
If you've ever been into a fringe music scene, or anything else outside the mainstream (socially, culturally, politically, recreationally), then my books are for you. They're skateboarding, not baseball; downtown, not suburbia.
"A Beat..." took close to three years of my life, often full-time, on top of a day-job--and that's after years of writing! It's a lot more fun than my earlier work, and my next novel is continuing along the same direction.
