Smiths' Meat Is Murder

by Joe Pernice

Book Overview

A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl (Allison), with a band (The Smiths) and with an album, Meat is Murder, that was so raw, so vivid and so melodic that you could cling to it like a lifeboat in a storm.

In this brilliant novella Joe Pernice tells the story of an asthmatic kid's discovery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082641494X
• ISBN13: 9780826414946
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.7" x 6.5"