Driving Stevie Fracasso

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Author
Barry Divola
Publisher
HarperCollins
Genre
Fiction
Released
03 March, 2021
ISBN
9781460759479

Driving Stevie Fracasso

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Synopsis

Jaded music journalist Rick McLennan knows his life is going south when he loses his job, his apartment and his long-term girlfriend all on the same day. But then he is thrown a lifeline - a commission to write the story of his ex-rock-star brother, Stevie, and drive him from Austin, Texas, to New York to play one final gig. One small problem: the brothers haven't spoken in thirty years. Rick knows it's a bad idea. But he's out of choices. So he gets behind the wheel of a beaten-up 1985 Nissan Stanza and drives towards his destiny. He's about to find everything he didn't know he was missing. It's September 2001. From award-winning journalist and author Barry Divola comes a glorious, music-infused, rollicking road-trip novel - think High Fidelity meets The Big Lebowski meets The Darjeeling Limited. A smart, funny and wholly endearing story about how, though we may at times lose ourselves along the way, the road always leads back to family and the things that bring us joy.

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Barry Divola's Driving Stevie Fracasso is a Rollicking, Music-Infused Road Trip Novel

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2 March 2021

Barry Divola's Driving Stevie Fracasso is a Rollicking, Music-Infused Road Trip Novel

    Smart, Funny and Nostalgic: Try a Sample Chapter of Driving Stevie Fracasso by Barry Divola

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    2 March 2021

    Smart, Funny and Nostalgic: Try a Sample Chapter of Driving Stevie Fracasso by Barry Divola

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      About the author

      Barry Divola

      Barry Divola is a journalist and author born and bred in Sydney, currently living in Perth. He writes regularly for The Sydney Morning HeraldThe Australian Financial Review and Qantas Magazine. He was a senior writer for Rolling Stone (Australia), the long-time music critic for Who, and his work has appeared internationally in Rolling StoneSpinEntertainment WeeklyMonocle and other magazines. Driving Stevie Fracasso is his first novel, but he has published eight other books – four non-fiction books, three children's books and a book of short fiction (Nineteen Seventysomething). He has won the Margaret River Short Story Prize, the FAW Jennifer Burbidge Award, the Cowley Literary Award and the Banjo Paterson Award for Short Fiction (three times). Although he plays in three bands in two cities, he has been informed not to give up his day job. 

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