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Savagely comic and... brilliant... the picaresque authority of a Joycean Hell s Angel... an unnerving and utterly persuasive rendition of hell. "The New York Times Book Review" There is a dazzling vitality to this first novel. The language is raw; the characters are fresh and outrageous; the style is wicked and impudent... This offbeat novel is outstanding and certain to be talked about. "Library Journal""
"Savagely comic and . . . brilliant . . . the picaresque authority of a Joycean Hell's Angel . . . an unnerving and utterly persuasive rendition of hell." --The New York Times Book Review
"There is a dazzling vitality to this first novel. The language is raw; the characters are fresh and outrageous; the style is wicked and impudent . . . This offbeat novel is outstanding and certain to be talked about." --Library Journal
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"Savagely comic and . . . brilliant . . . the picaresque authority of a Joycean Hell's Angel . . . an unnerving and utterly persuasive rendition of hell." --The New York Times Book Review
"There is a dazzling vitality to this first novel. The language is raw; the characters are fresh and outrageous; the style is wicked and impudent . . . This offbeat novel is outstanding and certain to be talked about." --Library Journal
Seth Morgan (1949-1990) was an American novelist whose sole published title, Homeboy, received much critical acclaim. Morgan drew from his own experiences with San Francisco drug culture and prison in order to write what the New York Times called "an unnerving and utterly persuasive rendition of hell" As a young boy, Morgan attended many elite private schools, including St. Bernard's School in New York and the American School in Switzerland. He also briefly attended the University of California, Berkeley, before dropping out and moving in with singer Janis Joplin. They became engaged shortly before she died. At the time of his own death in a motorcycle accident, Morgan was under contract for a second novel, set in New Orleans and titled Mambo Mephiste.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0701136642
- ISBN 13 9780701136642
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages390
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