Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Modern Fiction
Publisher: Quill
Publication Date: 2000
Fictional Artist: David Lowery (Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven)
Genre: Alternative Rock
Country: USA
Real World Analogue: David Lowery (Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven)
Jacket Blurb:
Camden Joy, with his inimitable torrent of language, sensation, and sound, tells the picaresque saga of a once-popular rock 'n' roll band as they cross America from California to Virginia, flying below the Mason-Dixon line and the cultural radar in the heady days of early 1991. As the Persian Gulf War escalates in the background, we follow the four band members on solo and group adventures amidst the vacuous American landscape of diners, clubs, colleges, and hotels.
Throughout the band's journey deep into the heart of an increasingly disposable culture, the country is imagined as a series of random TV landscapes, the future is seen bursting with garbage, the things of nature are rendered invisible, and experience itself becomes subordinated to pornography and the merest of junk-food analogies. A powerful eulogy for the once limitless possibilities of the American road, an anti -- On the Road, Boy Island is an ultimately redemptive meditation on the power of music and love, the only things that can save us.
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