Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada by Keith Hale

One of the best of its generation, this novel is beautifully written, exciting (and sexy), and full of incident and charm. His characters give off warmth and forthrightness in equal portions.

The author charts the victory of substance over appearance, of everlasting truths over transient physical relationships. You should rush to purchase this book-a remarkable novel that deserves wide readership. The author has given his novel characters with tenderness, wit, and humanity. Poetically evokes the pathos of early friendships and the frailty of adolescent dreams. Real warmth.Ī sense of life, the search for identity, intellectual militancy, the ambiguity of human relationships, unsatisfied desire, and weakness in facing existence are just some of the facets of life that the author evokes with precision. Ackerley’s honesty, intimacy, and ease of style. Burroughs, author of Naked LunchĬommands much of J.R. The novel aches with adolescent first loves. Burroughs was an early fan, Clicking Beat remains remarkably current and continues to be unique in coming of age literature.Ī haunting vision of young friendship shattered by an outrageously cruel world.

So beautiful, brave, and ahead of its time that William S. as Cody) quickly won praise from reviewers and readers across Europe and North America. Set in Arkansas but first published in Amsterdam, Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (published in the U.S. By turns funny, romantic, erotic, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate.

Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada by Keith Hale