Your Silent Face and Phil’s Siren Song are different books couched in the same setting with overlapping characters, however the narrators are focused on different issues. In the first clip, narrator of YSF, Stuart Page, relates a violent incident he witnessed before school when he was young. In the second clip, taken from PSS, narrator Phil McCormick captures a slice of the East Side, where he and Stuart grew up. Their stories mesh together but their situations are born out of different circumstances.
My second novel, the follow up to your Silent Face. Price includes shipping.
“A meandering but vigorous story about wayward youth and the necessity of art.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS
“The reader will likely be reminded of Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel High Fidelity or possibly Richard Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed and Confused; Lane’s tale is similarly episodic and digressive and more dedicated to re-creating the feeling of a time and place than telling a cohesive story. Even so, the sharp prose and inviting energy help it to succeed where similar novels fail. Readers will enjoy following Stuart’s thought processes, wherever they lead.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS
What lies ahead that doesn’t suck? Summer break forces Stuart Page to return home and wrestle with his fraying ties to the East Side of Flint, his memory an archive of cassettes he would like to erase. His freshman year of college was lame. More early Cure than Spandau Ballet, he might be overheard saying. More Gary Numan than Falco.
Flustered by visits from a stoic viking, fueled by an endless supply of beer, Stu picks apart an obsession with the lead singer of Joy Division and chugs the sour dregs of insecurity as he drunkenly veers through Flint’s blue collar fight culture, summer hook ups, the aftereffects of Old School Catholicism and Reaganomics in Your Silent Face.
Key words; fiction, coming of age, 80s music, New Wave, Gen X, Rust Belt, Native American, graffiti, urban poetry
