num_pages: 112
description: John Darnielle hears [Black Sabbath's Master of Reality] through the ears of Roger Painter a young adult locked in a southern California adolescent psychiatric center in 1985; deprived of his Walkman and hungry for comfort he explains Black Sabbath as one might describe air to a fish or love to an android hoping to convince his captors to give him back his tapes.
language: English
title: Master of Reality
publisher: Bloomsbury Academic