Nietzsche and The Burbs
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"When a new student transfers in from a posh private school, he falls in with a group of like-minded suburban stoners, artists, and outcasts--too smart and creative for their own good. His classmates nickname their new friend Nietzsche (for his braininess and bleak outlook on life), and decide he must be the front man of their metal band, now christened Nietzsche and the Burbs. With the abyss of graduation--not to mention their first gig--looming ahead, the group ramps up their experimentations with sex, drugs, and ... nihilist philosophy. Are they as doomed as their intellectual heroes? And why does the end of youth feel like such a universal tragedy? And as they ponder life's biggies, this sly, elegant, and often laugh-out-loud funny story of would-be rebels becomes something special: an absorbing and stirring reminder of a particular, exciting yet bittersweet moment in life...and a reminder that all adolescents are philosophers, and all philosophers are adolescents at heart."--Amazon.
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PUBLISHED
Brooklyn, New York : Melville House Publishing, 2019.
Year Published: 2019
Description: 345 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1612198120
9781612198125
SUBJECTS
Heavy metal (Music) -- Fiction.
Rock groups -- Fiction.
High school students -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.