1970
1970's
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alternating POV
Author_Greg Hewett
band
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cliff on cover
coming of age
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family
family ties
gay
green cover
guitar
historic
landscape cover
lone figure
male friendship
music
punk
punk rock
queer
rock band
seventies
sexuality
shifting point of view
underground
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- ISBN 9781566897259
- Dimensions: 139 x 209mm
- Publication Date: 22 May 2025
- Publisher: Coffee House Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Inspired by the iconic punk scene of the late '70s, No Names blurs the lines of affection and sexuality in a haunting tale of desire, hope, and loss.
Mike and Pete were "no names," two working-class boys lost in the shuffle of their stratified town, brought together by their love of music. By 1978, their punk band was blazing across the underground scene. Now, in 1993, Mike is a hermit living alone on a dot of an island in the North Atlantic. When a mysterious letter from an unlikely fan named Isaac arrives, he's pulled right back into the pain he’s spent over a decade running from.
Isaac longs for an escape from his lonely teenage life. A chance discovery of the No Names’ only album catapults him into an obsession with the godlike rockers and the tantalizing possibility of connection.
As their stories collide, mistakes breed consequences that echo through the decades like the furious reverberations of a power chord.
Mike and Pete were "no names," two working-class boys lost in the shuffle of their stratified town, brought together by their love of music. By 1978, their punk band was blazing across the underground scene. Now, in 1993, Mike is a hermit living alone on a dot of an island in the North Atlantic. When a mysterious letter from an unlikely fan named Isaac arrives, he's pulled right back into the pain he’s spent over a decade running from.
Isaac longs for an escape from his lonely teenage life. A chance discovery of the No Names’ only album catapults him into an obsession with the godlike rockers and the tantalizing possibility of connection.
As their stories collide, mistakes breed consequences that echo through the decades like the furious reverberations of a power chord.
Greg Hewett is the author of five volumes of poetry, including Blindsight (Coffee House Press, 2016). The recipient of Fulbright fellowships to Denmark and Norway, he has also been a fellow at the Camargo Foundation in France, and is Professor of English at Carleton College. No Names is his first novel. He lives with his husband in Minneapolis.
