SOFT ROCK by Dan DeWeese
SOFT ROCK by Dan DeWeese
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After the appearance of YouTube but before the invention of smartphones, a disconsolate young writer hears, from an apartment window, a soft rock song from his youth. Identifying and owning the song, he decides, will transform him into the confident man he needs to be in order to complete his manuscript on the relationship between Heian-era Japan and the 1967 Ice Bowl. His inability to name or locate the song, however, drives him to acts of increasing desperation and, ultimately, madness.
Beginning in the mode of 1960s hysterical realism, Soft Rock transforms into a meditation on delusion, mortality, and the haunting power of high-quality analog stereo systems.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Series: Propeller Longform Original Fiction
ISBN: 9781955593076
Publication Date: September 12, 2023
Paperback, 5 x 7 in.
AUTHOR
Dan DeWeese’s novel You Don’t Love This Man (2011) was a finalist for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and a winner of Late Night Library’s Debut-litzer Prize. Disorder (2012), a story collection, was the inaugural title of the Oregon Book Club, and his novel Gielgud (2018) was a small-press bestseller. His fiction has appeared in publications including Tin House, New England Review, Washington Square, and The Normal School, and his essays and criticism have appeared in publications including Oregon Humanities, Boneshaker, Matter, and Democracy in Education.