Boarded Windows

By Dylan Hicks

Almost Famous meets Portnoy's Complaint: A record store clerk in search of his origins confronts his con-man father figure.

Wade Salem is a charismatic aesthete, drug dealer, and journeyman country musician. He's also a complicated father figure to this novel's narrator, whose cloudy childhood becomes both clearer and more confusing through Wade's stories, jokes, and lectures. Through the eyes of a keenly observant, underemployed record collector, Wade emerges as a sly, disruptive force, at once seductive and maddening.

Shifting between flashbacks from the seventies and nineties, Boarded Windows is a postmodern orphan story that explores the fallibility of memory and the weight of our social and cultural inheritance. Stylistically layered and searchingly lonesome, Dylan Hicks's debut novel captures the music and mood of the fading embers of America's boomer counterculture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00AZ8MXW0
• ISBN13: 9781566892971
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.1"