Greatly enjoyed Sway, Zachary Lazar’s fictionalised account of the early Rolling Stones, culminating in the end of the 1960s and the bad acid trip of Altamont and the Charles Manson murders. Kenneth Anger gets a lot of pagetime too. It’s not a dumb pop novel simply leeching off the enduring aura of the Stones - Lazar writes extremely well and provides a fascinating take on the end of the optimism of the hippie era, as well as providing deft fly on the wall style imaginings of the birth of the Stones and the death of Brian Jones, alongside Anger’s own filmmaking exploits.
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Hello,
My name is Ashley Bridge; I work for Coral Press, an indie publisher of Musical Fiction.
Not only do we publish musical novels, but we are also becoming a prominent source for all things musical fiction. To that end, we have launched The Charts – our list of the Top 40 Musical novels of the past few decades compiled by Kellie D. Brown, author of The Annotated Bibliography and Reference List of Musical Fiction.
As part of our list of Top 40 Musical novels, we’ve included comments on the books from prominent bloggers. We’re pleased to let you know that we are referencing your blog and including a link to this post about Sway.
We hope you’ll check out The Charts at http://coralpress.com/playlist/charts/category/top-40-rock-and-pop/. And we’d love it if you created a link back to Coral Press: http://www.coralpress.com.
All the best,
Ashley Bridge
info@coralpress.com