Alt.punk
By: Lavinia Ludlow
Publisher: Casperian Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sacramento, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781934081297
Subjects: Young women; Self-actualization (Psychology); Fiction
Notes: We Need a Cleanup on Aisle Five.....Hazel is a middle-class hypochondriac doing (over)time as a manager at Safeway, the only place that would hire her with an MBA from a state school. She hates her boyfriend, her family, and her life.  Otis is a guiltless weirdo who still has action figures in his bed; a postindustrial Peter Pan who wakes up in the middle of the night crying from nightmares he can't remember. A punk rock void, he describes the world with the creative imagination of a child.  Together, they are a disaster.  In alt.punk, Lavinia Ludlow explores the ragged edge of art, society, and sanity, viciously skewering the politics of rebellion. With a savage eye for detail, she unveils the layers of mythmaking that underlie class and ideology in the twenty-first century.