- Paperback: 175 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo (18 May 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006550460
- ISBN-13: 978-0006550464
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 918,988 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Fun to read… the classic adolescent bildungsroman… very wittily done. I laughed out loud.’
TIM PARKS
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An international bestseller, this hot, hip and quirky love story from a talented young Italian author has been hailed as the Catcher in the Rye of the 90’s.
Alex D. is in his penultimate year in an upmarket Bologna high school and is failing in a variety of subjects. Alex is obsessed by alternative music, cutting class, scooting around town on his Vespa and getting off his head as often as possible. A classic disaffected teenager, Alex despises the other kids at school. Until Aidi.
With Aidi, Alex falls in love. But their time together is cut short when Aidi goes to the States for year. Can their relationship survive?
Filled with pop culture, trendy references, humorous moments, Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band is an insight into what it is to be young, Italian and in love in the 90s. It is young love in all its moving, cringeful, humourous, painful glory. Hailed as the new Catcher in the Rye, Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band has been a runaway bestseller in Italy and Europe, and is set to take the British market by storm. It is a cult book in the making.
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soon event that stupid February would've flown away and Alex felt terribly unhappy, but in a detached way, as if his life belonged to someone else, a raw feeling-all too typical, I admit no need to sneer though, because by that time Alex hadn't even turned eighteen, and in those days the Bologna sky was about as eloquent as a deaf block of cast iron, and you couldn't've expected much from a sky like that, not even one of those beautiful storms-the kind that washes the streets once and for all after nearly two weeks its catatonic state Read the first page
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soon event that stupid February would've flown away and Alex felt terribly unhappy, but in a detached way, as if his life belonged to someone else, a raw feeling-all too typical, I admit no need to sneer though, because by that time Alex hadn't even turned eighteen, and in those days the Bologna sky was about as eloquent as a deaf block of cast iron, and you couldn't've expected much from a sky like that, not even one of those beautiful storms-the kind that washes the streets once and for all after nearly two weeks its catatonic state Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I cannot but suggest it. Frusciante is a book you are not going to forget. Brizzi's without any doubt one of the most talented, intelligent and definitely brilliant italian young writers of our days. I also recommend 'Bastogne' and 'Three Imaginary Boys', by him. Being able to write the way Enrico does is a gift given to few (and he's *just* 24!)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
this book is so beautiful...a friend recommended it to me and it is one of only two books that have ever touched me...the other is "walk through cold fire" by cin forshay lundsford...when i finished this book i went back chapter by chapter and copied down passages that were especially beautiful...which i might add was almost every word...the only suggestion i have for someone who is about to read this book is stop...and read "the catcher in the rye" first...i was glad i did...on the whole a lovely well-written slice of what could be any sincere, sensitive adolescent's life at any given moment...
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
i read amazon's review of this book and i have to say don't think it did this book justice, making it sound like the other numerous teenage romance novels around. but this story is much more than that, and enrico brizzi writes in an unusual way...a bit like the 'constant stream of consciousness' way jack kerouac etc wrote. and although the whole book is lovely the way he portrays alex and aidi's relationship are the best bits of the book. so don't be put off by the tacky teenage fiction blurb given in the other review or on the blurb, just read it and you'll see my point!
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Don't Believe the Hype!
This book is so exceedingly annoying, I had a difficult time finishing it. Part of the problem is that it reeks of overhyped Gen-Xism, from jacket flaps cramming in multiple... Read more
Published on 14 Nov 2001 by A. Ross
a well worth it book
I had no idea what the book was about until i started reading and i gotta say i was shocked by the depth of the characters and how easy it was to relate to them despite the... Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2001 by c-a-z@divvy.co.uk
magical
beset by the same irrational, angsty, self-involved tendencies as we are this work really touches. it relates like nothing before; warm and real, its a real gem. go and read it!
Published on 28 May 2000 by kebabattak@hotmail.com
The book has too much European flair,
but tries pretensiously to be American. The references to American culture are uninteresting and stuck in the '80's. The book is confusing and un-emapthic.
Published on 10 Dec 1998
The most emo book ever written...so far
I fell in love with this book. It's about a little punk rocker named Alex who lives in Italy. I wanted to hang out with Alex and just have coffee with him by the end of the... Read more
Published on 26 Nov 1998
A bold, funny look at teenage angst
This book captured me from the first chapter - it lead me into the center of Alex's life - the angst about school, parents/adults, girls, and the meaning of life. Read more
Published on 16 Jun 1998
A good (and well paid) try for Umberto Eco's protege
Brizzi's book is a refreshing portrait of the European youth, for whom something terribly sad is as sad as an "alcohol free beer". Read more
Published on 3 Jun 1998
Absolutely beautiful
This book about the thoughts and confusions of 17 year old Alex is written in a wonderful form-how your really insightful and poetic best friend would talk to you. Read more
Published on 30 May 1998
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