The Joy Divisions

By Scott Dimovitz

Book Overview

The year is 1993, and art-school dropout Ed Pullman has returned home to work as a janitor in Allentown, Pennsylvania-the enigmatic nexus where goth kids, coffeeshop culture, and sultry drag queens collide with neo-Nazis, the dying textiles industry, and an unsettling commune led by an aspiring cult leader named Tod Griffon. As Ed and his loving cousin Ester struggle to find their place in a bleakly earnest landscape of guerrilla conceptual art, post-NAFTA labor battles, and burning factories, their hometown marches stoically toward a disaster of biblical proportions. With its vivid and original recreation of a place and time that is both utterly real and surprisingly magical, Scott Dimovitz's grittily nostalgic debut novel is a sensitively imagined fable about an unsuspecting world on the cusp of massive change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CBHLKWBL
• ISBN13: 9798988690306
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Tailwinds Press Enterprises LLC
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"