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Gone to the Wolves

Gone to the Wolves

Wray, John

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Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 1250335698
ISBN13: 9781250335692
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: May 21 2024
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.58
Language: English

Against the bleak backdrop of a Florida backwater town in the '80s, teenagers Kip, Leslie, and Kira make an alliance based in shared outsider status and love of metal. After their stumbling journey into adulthood takes them to West Hollywood, their tenuous friendship begins to crumble. Then, on pilgrimage to Norway, Kira disappears... and things start to get really weird. Will the bonds the trio forged at a time when they desperately needed each other be enough to carry them through a strange, death metal related ordeal? -Mary

 

A hair-raising, head-banging, meet-the-Devil epic tale of love, youth, and rock 'n' roll. --Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less Is Lost

Kip, Leslie, and Kira are outliers--even in the metal scene they love. In arch-conservative Gulf Coast Florida in the late 1980s, just listening to metal can get you arrested, but for the three of them the risk is well worth it, because metal is what leads them to one another.

Different as they are, Kip, Leslie, and Kira form a family of sorts that proves far safer, and more loving, than the families they come from. Together, they make the pilgrimage from Florida's swamp country to the fabled Sunset Strip in Hollywood. But in time, the delicate equilibrium they've found begins to crumble. Leslie moves home to live with his elderly parents; Kip struggles to find his footing in the sordid world of LA music journalism; and Kira, the most troubled of the three, finds herself drawn to ever darker and more extreme strains of metal. On a trip to northern Europe for her twenty-second birthday, in the middle of a show, she simply vanishes. Two years later, the truth about her disappearance reunites Kip with Leslie, who in order to bring Kira home alive must make greater sacrifices than they could ever have imagined.

In his most absorbing and ambitious novel yet, John Wray dives deep into the wild, funhouse world of heavy metal and death cults in the 1980s and '90s. Gone to the Wolves lays bare the intensity, tumult, and thrill of friendship in adolescence--a time when music can often feel like life or death.

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