Golden years
By: Ali Eskandarian
Contributors: Brackstone, Lee, editor; Gelderen, Oscar van, writer of afterword
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780571321063; 9780571321070
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Yellow Dogs (Musical group); Rock musicians; Iranian Americans; Fiction
Description: In November 2013, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ali Eskandarian was murdered alongside two members of the Iranian band, The Yellow Dogs. In the months leading up to this terrible event, Ali had been in correspondence with a friend and Dutch publisher, Oscar van Gelderen, about his semi-autobiographical novel. Golden Years is that book. Set in the first decade of the 21st century in New York, Teheran and Dallas, Golden Years is a novel perfumed with excess and spirited decadence. It tells the story of a group of Iranian musicians in their twenties and our narrator, in his 30s, who is in thrall to the great American beats and has visions of Ancient Assyrian Futurism.
Notes: "An Iranian-American beat novel"--Cover.

Edited by Lee Brackstone ; afterward by Oscar van Gelderen.