Book DetailsCountry:
Language: English
Genre: Modern Fiction
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Publication Date: 1997
Fictional Artist: Mina
Genre: Goth
Country: UK
Real World Analogue: The Velvet Underground's Nico and Dale Bozzio from Missing Persons
Jacket Blurb:
Kip, a lonely provincial boy with a large record collection, comes to London in the early 1980s to enlist as a hack reviewer for a pop weekly - and to fall in love with torch singing vamp Mina. Mina's cult melange of Goth, Euro-Disco and nihilism becomes the next big thing on both sides of the Atlantic and the besotted Kip's career soars: while covering Mina's first US tour, Kip goes into a mental and metaphysical freefall... Barney Hoskyns has written a bittersweet tale of youthful angst which will move anyone who has ever been a pop fan - or had their heart broken.
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