The Locker Notes - Derrico, Mike

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Résumé :
The 1970s...Suburbia...Peer Pressure...Drugs...Politics...Pathetic School Crushes...and a Whole Lotta Rock & Roll! On the eve of his sixth grade year at the Cypress Elementary School, Eugene Devine flashes back to early childhood, and all of the traumatizing absurdities that have made him into the shy, timid and neurotic kid that he has become. Caught between fear and the increasing need to be cool, Eugene sketches his encounters with the friends, villains and outlandish characters of the small suburban town of Oakwoods during the 1970s. Inspired by the author's memories of growing up in the suburbs of New Jersey, THE LOCKER NOTES is written in the tradition of The Wonder Years and A Christmas Story. It is suburban life before the Internet, video games, cell phones and social media. Depicting the paranoia of an overprotected child all too aware of the bad kids, THE LOCKER NOTES unfolds before the backdrop of the music, movies, television, fashion, sports, politics and world events of the Seventies...all seen through the eyes of a child during simpler yet turbulent times that are marked by an ever-present sense that something inevitably horrible is just around the corner. The Locker Notes...Every generation lives at the end of the world....

Biographie:
Mike Derrico is a music and pop culture historian, host of the six-season Rock Under Fire podcast, and author of the books Autumn and Everything After: The Murder of John Lennon, Evolution of Bruce Springsteen & the Birth of the Reagan Era (2020) and The Locker Notes (2021). His work has appeared in NJArts.net and Pleasekillme.com....

Sommaire:
Mike Derrico is a freelance writer and 1970s pop culture historian from Central New Jersey. He is the author of ...AND THE CATHEDRAL FELL TO THE GROUND: The Lonesome Death of Rock & Roll (2023), THE LOCKER NOTES, a novel (2021), and AUTUMN AND EVERYTHING AFTER: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen & the Birth of the Reagan Era (2020). BICENTENNIAL CHIC is his fourth book. His work has appeared in NJArts.net and Legs McNeil's Pleasekillme.com. From 2016-2023, he produced and hosted the Rock Under Fire podcast, which ran for six seasons.Follow Mike on derricountitled.com, Substack and Instagram....