![]() What results is a car-and-motorcycle chase across the southern Midwest ending in a huge revival rally at the drive-in movie theater. ![]() This book brews a heady concoction out of such diverse elements as space aliens living in disguise next door in suburban Kansas a resurrected Buddy Holly appearing on TV worldwide with the planet Jupiter in the background, on all channels, twenty-four hours a day, a desperately depressed computer-store clerk, Oliver Vale, whose nutty mother worships rock ‘n’ roll. Now he breaks into hardcover with Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, an extraordinary novel of realism and wild fantasy in the postmodern vein. “Impressive work, highly original…Highly recommended,” said Science Fiction Chronicle. Locus called it “an eccentric triumph, recommended reading for members of that paradox-ridden generation where rock ‘n’ roll will never die, but kids have turned into grownups all the same.” “Moves at breakneck pace, filled with comic invention and brutal satire,” said Booklist. ![]() Several years ago Bradley Denton’s first novel appeared as a paperback original entitled Wrack & Roll. Price I paid: Libraries are fun and educational Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede by Bradley Denton ![]()
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