(Sept.)įorecast: This B&N Discover pick will appeal to alterna-adolescents and adults alike. He's a sympathetic narrator and a prime example of awkward adolescence, even if he doesn't have much of a plot crafted around him. Meno also deals honestly with teenage violence-though Gretchen's fights have a certain slapstick quality, Brian's occasional bouts of anger and destruction seem very real. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Hairstyles of the Damned. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Meno ably explores Brian's emotional uncertainty and his poignant youthful search for meaning, both in music and in his on-again, off-again situation with Gretchen his gabby, heartfelt and utterly believable take on adolescence strikes a winning chord. Joe Meno, quote from Hairstyles of the Damned Copy text It would always be a put-on, high school or not, for the whole rest of the world, for the rest of our lives. Hairstyles of the Damned - Ebook written by Joe Meno.

Typical adolescent drama reigns: Brian's parents are having marital problems, he needs money to buy wheels ('I needed a van because, like Mike always said, guys with vans always got the most trim, after the guys who could grow mustaches'), he experiments with sex and vandalism. Gretchen keeps Brian at bay even as their friendship starts to bloom into a romance, forcing him to find comfort with the fetching but slatternly Dorie. Gretchen, meanwhile, loves the Ramones and the Clash and 26-year-old 'white power thug' Tony Degan. Brian loves video games, metal music and his best friend, Gretchen, an overweight, foul-mouthed, pink-haired badass famous for beating up other girls. ) gives his proverbial coming-of-age tale a punk-rock edge, as 17-year-old Chicagoan Brian Oswald tries to land his first girlfriend and make it through high school.

Hairstyles of the damned by joe meno