Revival: A Folk Music Novel - Softcover

Scott Alarik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931807914 ISBN 13: 9781931807913

Publisher: SCOTT ALARIK, 2011

Synopsis

Revival is a novel similar to Crazy Heart and A Star is Born that celebrates America's renewed passion for folk music and singer-songwriters as well as a May-December romance with a young female songwriter and older male songwriter. Set in bars, coffeehouses, open mics and recording studios-author was a regular on A Prairie Home Companion and reviews folk music for the Boston Globe. Catie Curtis says, The characters are so believable you want to go hear them in concert.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

There has never been a novel like this, a love story set in the subterranean world of modern folk music. Talented, charismatic songwriter Nathan Warren lost his chance at stardom years ago, and now sees his life as waste and ruin. Kit Palmer is young, beautiful, and explosively gifted, but her dreams are also doomed unless she can keep from falling apart on stage. They travel the Boston folk scene as lovers and artists, through basement clubs and funky jam sessions, rowdy open mikes and sprawling festivals, seeking stardom for one and redemption for the other.

About the Author:

Scott Alarik covered folk music in the Boston Globe for over 20 years. Pete Seeger calls him “one of the best writers in America,” and the Library Journal called his first book, Deep Community: Adventures in the Modern Folk Underground, “an essential primer of the continuing folk revival.” Alarik is also a singer-songwriter who toured the national folk circuit and performed regularly on A Prairie Home Companion.

About this edition

• Publisher: SCOTT ALARIK
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1931807914
• ISBN 13: 9781931807913
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328