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	• The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories Debra Marquart New Rivers Press, 2001 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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I think that the average reader is in for a treat with this book. However, it really helps if you have been in a band, have seen This is Spinal Tap more than 5 times, and are on a first-name basis with the employees of your favorite local guitar shop!

The stories in here really hit home for me. And I got a really good laugh out of it too. The characterizations are dead-on accurate.

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Elegant and Gritty at the same time

The Hunger Bone is a wonderful collection of short stories strung together with shorter stories, prose poems, to give the collection texture and contribute to the creation of a world -- the world of travelling rock and roll musicians. The characters are beautifully drawn, and the stories reveal the thrills and trials of such a life. There's lots of humor here, and cynical glimpses of the audience's behavior on a dance floor when energy is high and inhibitions are low. We see the economic struggles of the musicians, their loyalties to each other, and points when those loyalties break down. The details are clear and ring true, and the tales are moving. Any lover of rock and roll would love this book. It's great. The elegant prose is so beautiful -- musical, in fact.

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These stories might not make you want to be a road musician, but they will make you feel like you have been. It's a ride!

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Short stories and short-short stories about traveling rock musicians that focus on the unseen, less than glamorous side of touring as a struggling rock band-the personal tolls, the grueling poverty, the gnawing hunger for fame, and the small and unlikely moments of redemption. These characters are slowly realizing that their dreams are slipping away, that age and hard living have worn them down, that their funky, rootless, rock & roll lives have not taken on the grandeur they'd envisioned.
Debra Marquart toured with several rock and heavy metal bands during the 1970s and 1980s. She previously published a book of poetry, Everything's a Verb (New Rivers Press, 1995), and currently teaches creative writing at Iowa State University. She is the poetry editor of the Flyway Literary Review.

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