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Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band: A Love Story- with Rock 'n' Roll
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About Jack Frusciante Has Left The Band: A Love
Product Description Alex D. is on the verge of just about everything and consumed by a restless, unanswered longing that rebels against jumping through the hoops of school. Staring down the tunnel to a mundane adulthood, he is appalled by the banality and overwhelming predictability of it all: teachers, parents, and above all his classmates - the seething masses of dutiful zombies and sistren of the Evervirgin Sorority. A bicycle bandit with a DeNiro smile, Alex sports a homemade buzzcut, ditches school to drink and trade stories with his posse of delinquents and rogues, and chases away the blues by assailing his eardrums with the Clash. He shares a brief friendship with the privileged, semi-degenerate Martino, who seems to have mastered the devil-may-care stance Alex covets - until he's busted for drugs. And then comes the sudden entrance of Aidi, who seems to instantly understand, complement, and challenge him. A hundred letters and conversations later, she is magnificent, amazing, irreplaceable ... and leaving for a year in America at the end of the summer. Amazon.com Review The setting: Bologna, Italy, under a sky "as eloquent as a block of cast iron." The hero: Alex, a bright and bored 18-year-old. The genre: coming of age. Alex, anticipating a future of bun-numbing, bourgeoisie-induced boredom and hopelessly in love, takes up with the briskly degenerate--albeit empathic--Martino. Drinking, drugging, and rock-and-roll fill the void left, or created, by Alex's realization of the banality of existence. Enrico Brizzi writes with an insider's view of life in the band--he himself played in a rock band before he was thrown out for bad conduct. What lifts Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band above the more predictable aspects of the coming-of-age story is its tone: energetic and crackling with irony. The author, already a sensation at 22, has become one of Italy's biggest sellers. With the easy, slangy conversational style of , Brizzi's second novel paints an endearing picture of contemporary youth outrageously scrambling for meaning. From Library Journal When reviewers use the adjective sweet to describe a novel, it unfortunately conveys the impression that the book is soppy, insipid, or both. Yet this first novel by a 22-year-old hotshot Italian author is wonderfully sweet in the purest, most nonpejorative sense. Alex D., the 16-year-old hero, is torn between his old self as top student and obedient son and his restless new persona as friend to druggies and musicians. When Alex meets Aidi, he discovers a girl who understands his hopes and dreams, delights in his company, and becomes irreplaceable in his life. The only hitch to this perfect (and remarkably unsexual) relationship is that she's leaving for the United States in five months for a year as an exchange student. Although some readers (including this reviewer) will be unfamiliar with many of the names and references, particularly to either Italy or contemporary music, this well-translated portrayal of first love is a treat to read.?Nancy Pearl, Washington Ctr. for the Book, Seattle Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews Haphazardly punctuated first novel of middle-class Europeen angst that's less about rock 'n' roll, or pubescent love, than about Anglo-American slacker culture and a bunch of dead-end kids who talk the talk and walk the walk because they have nothing better to do. The story, set in Bologna, veers between impressionistic accounts of 16-year-old Alex's search for love, thrills, and a purpose in life, and transcripts of his annoyingly affected tape-recorded diary. Alex is, of course, alienated from his family, who apparently do nothing but watch television, eat, and drive Alex wherever he can't take himself on his bicycle--this last a relic of his childhood that comes to symbolize his quest for enduring values. When not flying through Bolognese streets on the bike and thinking of himself in rock bands, or as Holden
