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Original Title:	Not Fade Away
ISBN:	0802197647 (ISBN13: 9780802197641)
Edition Language:	English

Not Fade Away ebook | Pages: 304 pages

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Title	:	Not Fade Away
Author	:	Jim Dodge
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	December 1st 2007 by Grove Press (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Fiction. The United States Of America. Literature. American. Contemporary

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A road trip novel from the author of Fup that "reads like Kerouac's On the Road as it might have been written by Hunter S. Thompson" (The Plain Dealer).

George Gastin is a Bay Area tow-truck operator who wrecks cars as part of an insurance scam. One of the cars he is hired to demolish is a snow-white Cadillac that was supposed to be a present for the Big Bopper, who died in the Iowa plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. Gastin has a change of heart and takes off in the car, heading for Texas where the Bopper is buried. Armed with a thousand hits of Benzedrine and chased by adversaries real and imagined, Gastin navigates a road trip that covers many miles and states of mind.

Traveling in time from the Beat era to the dawn of the sixties, from the coffeehouses of North Beach to the open plains of America, Gastin picks up some extraordinary hitchhikers: the self-proclaimed "world's greatest salesman," the Reverend Double-Gone Johnson, and a battered housewife with a box of old 45s. As the miles and sleepless hours roll by, Gastin's trip becomes a blur of fantasy and reality fueled by a soundtrack of classic rock 'n' roll.

"His surreal voyage into the chaos of night carries him into the heart of America's darkest psychological landscapes. Not Fade Away shakes, rattles, and rolls." --San Francisco Chronicle

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Goddammit I love this book! From the moment I discovered it in a bookstore in Boston in the late 80s, and bought it just cuz I liked the cover, it has traveled with me from apartment to apartment to condo; from state to state, and city to city. Ive lost count of how many times Ive read my tattered mess of an copy. In all those years I only met one other person who had read this book and loved the tale of George the Ghost Gaston and Rock & Roll redemption as much as me. I married her.

Don't drink, take drugs and drive people; unless you are a devil-may-care literary character in a stolen car. In which case, just keep on trucking with your adventures peppered with strange characters. My slightly longer review can be found here: http://fictionalfix.blogspot.com/2018...

Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge (www.canongate.net)Several years ago I read Jim Dodge's Stone Junction after my old friend Gurbs had recommended it and loved every word of it which is why it's strange that it took me so long to getting round to getting Jims other books, well this xmas just gone Santa delivered them to me.Damn Not Fade Away is a great read and like the books narrator Floorboard George it is soaked in Benzedrine and flashes by at great speed so you feel like your gobbling down the

There is Jack Kerouac, and there are the ones who try to be him. Well try harder.

weird, post-beatnik, post-60s (published in 87) psychedelic love-letter to rock 'n' roll, road trips, and strange characters we meet in life. Great characters thrown in amongst heady philosophizing. Book peters out towards the end when it starts devolving into incoherency but rest of the novel is tightly wound and enjoyable as hell. Jim Dodge is a treasure.

Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge (www.canongate.net)Several years ago I read Jim Dodge's Stone Junction after my old friend Gurbs had recommended it and loved every word of it which is why it's strange that it took me so long to getting round to getting Jims other books, well this xmas just gone Santa delivered them to me.Damn Not Fade Away is a great read and like the books narrator Floorboard George it is soaked in Benzedrine and flashes by at great speed so you feel like your gobbling down the

a druggie 'wrecker' for insurance scams decides to 'save' a classic car. adventures & hilarity ensue.