Book Review
- Title:
- he Last Mad Surge of Youth
- Author:
- Mark Hodkinson
- Genre:
- Contemporary Fiction
- Publishing Details:
- Pomona Books, 2009
ISBN: 978-1904590200
- Description:
- Set in both the present day and the early 1980s, when Maggie Thatcher ruled the world (or thought she did) and new wave kids were dreaming up insurrection, The Last Mad Surge of Youth is a novel about bands, growing up, moving away and getting famous, suicide, staying at home and getting bored, fanzines, the bomb, love, alcoholism, egotism and self-doubt.
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