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

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

We were at a gas station just outside Philadelphia when the second tower fell. At that point I knew what was happening in New York, but to tell you the truth, it rated about third or fourth on the list of the most pressing issues in my life that day.

The guy sitting next to me in my ex-girlfriend’s piece-of-shit 1985 Nissan Stanza was higher up the list. He kind of started this whole sorry tale.

His name was Stevie Fracasso.

Yes, that Stevie Fracasso.

And yes, if you’re a music nerd of a certain age, I can answer the next two questions that popped into your head after hearing that name.

No, he didn’t die onstage on Valentine’s Day, 1981.

And yes, I do know what happened to him after he disappeared off the face of the earth.

Sit tight…

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

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      Publisher details

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

      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.
      Barry Divola
      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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