Damian McDonald
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| The Crunge by Damian McDonald - 209 pages ~ PDF | AU$8.00 |  |
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 2010 Synopsis for The Crunge by Damian McDonald The Crunge was a dance conjured by Jimmy Page, guitarist of Led Zeppelin. The steps were impossible to execute. Jimmy Fukstaak, the central character of the novel The Crunge, leads a life as awkward, ridiculous, funny and sad as that dance. The manuscript is a roman à clef of the Sydney underground rock scene in the late 1980’s and through the 90’s. Many followed the grunge fashion. Some lived the life. There’s an incessant flow of Twelve Step confessionals from successful rockers, but what happens to the far more common resultants of gambling all for the life: the ones who don’t make it? Jimmy escapes poverty and abuse and Canberra after the death of a close friend. Finding himself homeless and centless in Sydney’s Kings Cross, he is taken in by the unlikely benevolence of the petty street crims. Establishing somewhat of a living there, he finds himself joining a hardcore punk rock band. From there Jimmy pursues a career in inane, unenjoyable sex, alcohol, marijuana, speed, and heroin abuse. And rock n roll. Searching for love and comfort, and meaning, Jimmy barks with humour and melancholy up continuous wrong trees. All the while doing the recording and gigging dog-paddle in the sea of punters and bands that make up the Sydney inner-city rock circuit. Until things really have to change. He joins the army, thinking the discipline and implied health will transform him. There is a transformation of sorts, but Jimmy is running away from things that exist universally. A scaring injuring sustained in Southeast Asia sees him discharged, and left with more psychological scaring than he went into the army with. But life improves. Jimmy finds music again. Finds family. He even almost finds love. And redemption. But there’s always that omnipresent monster: addiction. The Crunge may make some readers cringe; but despite his rather deep flaws, Jimmy Fukstaak draws compassion. The novel is also a nod to grunge literature, particularly the early work of Andrew McGrahan, and Irvine Welsh. Two great influences on the author. ~
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