Last Bongo Sunset Paperback - 2014
by Les Plesko
Plesko's first novel describes the grimy underworld of junkies, theives, pimps, and prostitutes in Venice California, reminiscent of William Burroughs's extraordinary novel Junky. "A lyrical tour de force . . . brutally intense, hallucinatory and visionary".--Kate Braverman.
From the rear cover
In this stunning first novel about passage and exile, from the Old World to the New, from awkward and tentative safety to the brutality of the Golden State's final beachhead, Les Plesko plumbs the depths of addiction, to narcotics and to memory. The Last Bongo Sunset is about inventing an identity in a world where all systems have failed, and a region where geography and the psyche are both being dismembered. The Last Bongo Sunset is a hip, hallucinatory journey of self-discovery set in the romantic underside of the American Dream: Venice, California, the last outpost of the sixties. It is what happens after Burroughs and the Beats. Plesko's vision is striking, bold, and indelible, a lyrical elegy to a recent but remote era.
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- Title Last Bongo Sunset
- Author Les Plesko
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Date 2014-08-30
- ISBN 9781476799940 / 1476799946
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.68 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Library of Congress subjects Criminals, Bildungsromane
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94022439
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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