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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"Greg Hewett has created a magnificent, tender punk musician who has a little problem with violence, who is innocent in his experience; a boy/man whose music illuminates his passions, his passions fueling his music. The music and Hewett's terrific hero live on after the final page." - Jane Hamilton
"With a poet's expansive vision, Greg Hewett writes about all the ways that music crushes the distance between decades and individual lives, especially queer lives in search of orientation points. No Names charms with specificity and, in exchange, offers a life force." - Paul Lisicky
"A brutally poetic, endlessly captivating exploration of the transcendent power of music and all its impossible contradictions. With punchy, urgent writing, Hewett details the emotional and psychological complexity of fandom, obsession, failure, and the increasingly rare possibility of true connection." - Joe Meno
"With a poet's expansive vision, Greg Hewett writes about all the ways that music crushes the distance between decades and individual lives, especially queer lives in search of orientation points. No Names charms with specificity and, in exchange, offers a life force." - Paul Lisicky
"A brutally poetic, endlessly captivating exploration of the transcendent power of music and all its impossible contradictions. With punchy, urgent writing, Hewett details the emotional and psychological complexity of fandom, obsession, failure, and the increasingly rare possibility of true connection." - Joe Meno
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