Generation Loss
Author | : Elizabeth Hand |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007 |
ISBN-10 | : 0156031345 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780156031349 |
Rating | : 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Cass Neary made her name in the seventies as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and the hangers-on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, earned her a brief moment of fame. Thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out when an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Down East, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and she finds one final shot at redemption. Patricia Highsmith meets Patti Smith in this mesmerizing literary thriller.