num_pages: 192
description: Alex D. is on the verge of just about everything and consumed by a restless, unanswered longing that rebels against jumping through the hoops of school. Staring down the tunnel to a mundane adulthood, he is appalled by the banality and overwhelming predictability of it teachers, parents, and above all his classmates - the seething masses of dutiful zombies and sistren of the Evervirgin Sorority. A bicycle bandit with a DeNiro smile, Alex sports a homemade buzzcut, ditches school to drink and trade stories with his posse of delinquents and rogues, and chases away the blues by assailing his eardrums with the Clash. He shares a brief friendship with the privileged, semi-degenerate Martino, who seems to have mastered the devil-may-care stance Alex covets - until he's busted for drugs. And then comes the sudden entrance of Aidi, who seems to instantly understand, complement, and challenge him. A hundred letters and conversations later, she is magnificent, amazing, irreplaceable ... and leaving for a year in America at the end of the summer.
language: English
title: Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band: A Love Story- with Rock 'n' Roll
titlecomplete: Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band: A Love Story- with Rock 'n' Roll
genres: Young Adult, School, Italian Literature, Novels, Italy, Coming Of Age, Music, Fiction, Humor, Contemporary
ratings_count: 6304
places: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Premio Bergamo
publisher: Grove Press