Young And Immortal

About the Book

“Everybody knows a guy like Horace Kane Faustaff. Everybody has that one destructive friend who they just can´t get rid of or let go of. We need him to bring some excitement into our otherwise boring life.” So begins Young & Immortal, an excruciatingly honest portrayal of adolescence from the conscience of a mild-mannered, sensitive narrator contemplating the quirks of his stormy friendship with this obnoxious, manipulative, irresponsible brute of an incidental muse. From white upper-middle class suburban Cedarburg, Wisconsin to the streets of Milwaukee, this odd pair finds a common bond in drugs, girls, and music as their discordant values develop, are tested, and change with the coming of age and pressures of society. With thoughtful commentary, this scrapbook-like memoir is colored with anecdotes, poems, letters, and perspective character asides, set against the backdrop of the current events and popular music of the time, from Cobain’s suicide to the Clinton scandal to the Packers winning the Super Bowl. Confronting the more crude aspects of growing up that popular literature would otherwise skip over, it puts the “adult” back in “young adult” literary fiction. In a struggle to come to terms with this crazy friendship, the cruel power of romantic love, the disillusion of religion, and the lure of drugs and easy girls, this personal narrative might reveal as much about the reader as it does the omniscient narrator and his friend.

About the Author

dreamy tortured writer thirty-something forever young kinky hopeless romantic wine-drinking non-golfer dog-loving cat-person occultist secret society man student tutor school teacher artist traveler happy camper coffee addict tree-hugging libertarian stubborn pacifist conspiracy theorist Midwestern pisces poet son of a bitch recovering Catholic Gnostic Christian Taoist Deadhead Milwaukee Brewers fan sado-maso-hedonistic panty-sniffing motherfucker with a BA in English (Creative Writing) from UW-Milwaukee and some poems published in various big and small presses and many various other essays and novels still in the womb waiting to be baptized in print.