Savage Joy Author:Robert Dunn In 1976, author Robert Dunn (Meet the Annas, Stations of the Cross) moved to New York City, scored a $90-a-month East Village apartment, and got hired at The New Yorker magazine. All life-changing good fortune, and the foundation of this semi-autobiographical novel. — Cole Whitman, straddles the line between his uptown literary world and the budd... more »ing Lower Manhattan punk scene. When an apartment in his building at 340 East 11th Street opens up, musician Slater Martin moves in and sweeps Cole up into the CBGB world. Also moving into 340 is Emily Prosser, Cole's elegant and mysterious literary editor for whom Cole harbors an unrequited desire.
Cole needs a girlfriend, Slater needs a new band, Emily needs a new life. Together the three of them, along with fiery female drummer, Sailor; and dweeby bassist, Wendell Walter, form the new punk group Savage Joy.
What follows is both joyful and savage, a feast of love, music, sex, violence, blood, and madness.« less