Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band: A Love Story- With Rock 'n' Roll Paperback - 1997

From the rear cover

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.

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Citations

• Booklist, 11/15/1997, Page 541
• Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/1997, Page 1471
• Library Journal, 11/15/1997, Page 75
• New York Times, 01/11/1998, Page 14
• Publishers Weekly, 10/27/1997, Page 55