{"product_id":"a-song-without-a-melody-a-novel-of-the-90s-by-ace-boggess-9781988292052","title":"A Song Without a Melody: A novel of the '90s by Ace Boggess","description":"\u003cp\u003eCollin Hearst is a timid young reporter covering the Pittsburgh music scene during the early 1990s. Largely inept at dealing with other people, he hides behind characters he refers to as his \"routines.\" December Leigh, lead singer of the alternative-rock band Cancer Moon, also has identity issues, hiding behind more literal masks. When they get together, what follows is a whirlwind tour of sex, drugs, and self-discovery, all set against a backdrop of colorful '90s subculture and a soundtrack that Collin will hear forever in his mind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Harrowing and authentic... Boggess writes like a demented coroner cutting into living bodies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--John Van Kirk, author of \u003cem\u003eSong for Chance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This novel would be just as potent and vivid on film--or as a stage play or a graphic novel. \u003cem\u003eSong \u003c\/em\u003eis both philosophy and thrilling suspense--grunge-era lyrics scrawled across the pages of Camus.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--Andrea Fekete, author of \u003cem\u003eWaters Run Wild\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eA Song Without a Melody\u003c\/em\u003e is Ace Boggess at his best: lurid prose, a strong sense of place, and the heart and forward momentum that makes him a master storyteller.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--Eliot Parker, author of \u003cem\u003eFragile Brilliance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAce Boggess is a freelance writer and editor living in Charleston, West Virginia. He is the author of two books of poetry: \u003cem\u003eThe Prisoners\u003c\/em\u003e (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2014) and \u003cem\u003eThe Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled\u003c\/em\u003e (Highwire Press, 2003). His writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eHarvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Lumina, Mid-American Review, River Styx, North Dakota Quarterly, \u003c\/em\u003eand hundreds of other journals. He received a fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and spent five years in a West Virginia prison. But that's another story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hyperborea Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50367335366930,"sku":"9781988292052","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7bd3a42e-7ffa-4559-86a8-3f8c96402161.jpg?v=1728490451","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-song-without-a-melody-a-novel-of-the-90s-by-ace-boggess-9781988292052","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}