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Rage Is Back 2013 Hardcover Novel by Adam Mansbach
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LC Classification Number:PS3613.A57R34 2012Topic:Urban, Family Life, General, LiteraryNumber of Pages:304 PagesPublication Year:2013Language:EnglishDewey Decimal:813/.6Item Height:0.4 inGrade From:Twelfth GradePublisher:Penguin Publishing Groupgtin13:9780670026128Item Length:3.6 inSynopsis:Welcome to the Great American Graffiti Novel Number one New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach returns with a blockbuster tale pf revenge, redemption, and the world's most beautiful crime. Dondi Vance is the son of two famous graffiti artists from New York City's 'golden era' of subway bombing. Recently kicked out of his prestigious prep school for selling weed-and his mother's Brooklyn apartment for losing his scholarship-he's couch-surfing his way through life, compulsively immune to rumors that his long-lost father, Billy Rage, has returned after sixteen years on the lam. But Dondi's old man really is back - what's left of him that is. A wizened shell of his former self, Billy is still reeling from a psychic attack by an angry shaman in the Amazon basin when Dondi finds him at the top of a pseudo-magical staircase in Dumbo. The uneasy reunion comes just in time- Anastacio Bracken, the transit cop who ruined Billy's life and shattered his crew back in 1987, is running for mayor. Only by rallying the forgotten writers of the eighties for an epic, game-changing mission can Billy and Dondi bring Bracken down. In this mind-bending journey through a subterranean world of epic heroes, villains, and eccentrics, Adam Mansbach balances an intricately plotted high-stakes caper with a wildly inventive tale of the time travel and shamanism, prodigal fathers and sons, and the hilariously intertwined realms of art, crime, and spirituality. Moving throughout New York City's unseen communities, from the tunnel camps of the Mole People to the drug dens of Crown Heights, Rage Is Back is a kaleidoscopic tour de force from a writer at the top of his game. 'An ambitious and immersive look into the New York graffiti scene. A finely detailed, richly colored work drawn with an artful hand.' Chuck Hogan, author of The Town 'A great, raucous ride-a lament for the hypocrisy of the present, as well as an ode to a lost NYC of the eighties, where street art and cultural chaos were in constant struggle against greed and corruption. The voice of the narrator-melancholy and hilarious, acerbic and wise-leaps out form page one, grabs you, and doesn't let go.' Danzy Senna, author of Caucasia 'A lush tale of time travel, mysticism, justice, the adventures of a boy and his dad-woven into the fabric of a bygone era in NYC. Fresh, compelling, and nostalgic all at once-a must for lovers of graf culture and those of us who lived it.' Pharoahe MonchReviews:"Adam Mansbach's Rage is Back is a great, raucous ride-a lament for the hypocrisy of the present, as well as an ode to a lost NYC of the Eighties, where street art and cultural chaos were in constant struggle against greed and corruption. The voice of the narrator-melancholy and hilarious, acerbic and wise-leaps out from page one, grabs you and doesn't let go." -Danzy Senna , author of Caucasia, "Mansbach has clearly had a play date with Michael Chabon and Junot Diaz, and his fresh, witty novel is one that hip readers will relish . . . Laced with zaniness and cultural bling, it's a nostalgic tribute to the glory days of street art, back when New York City had character . . . There's no resisting [Dondi], 'a nerd with swagger,' as he riffs on everything from Madison Avenue to yuppies' racial anxiety . . . And who knows, his swirling descriptions might entice you to pick up an old can of Krylon." - Ron Charles , Washington Post , "Carlos Castaneda meets underground New York with a subway tunnel sensibility . . . Sure to be a cult classic and cause a stir." - Library Journal , "Adam Mansbach's Rage is Back is a profound reminder of why fiction matters. A riotous and propulsive read, this darkly poetic novel took me places I could never get to with my own two feet, and introduced me to souls living colorfully outside the mainstream. Behind its street boy pose is an ambitious novel about family, friendship and the ties that bind. Mansbach makes it look easy." - Attica Locke, author of Blackwater Rising and The Cutting Season, "A fierce and funny thrill ride through the train yards and back streets of the graffiti underground. Mansbach writes with splendid rhythm and intensity." - San Jose Mercury News , "Adam Mansbach's Rage Is Back is a profound reminder of why fiction matters. A riotous and propulsive read, this darkly poetic novel took me places I could never get to with my own two feet, and introduced me to souls living colorfully outside the mainstream. Behind its street boy pose is an ambitious novel about family, friendship and the ties that bind. Mansbach makes it look easy." - Attica Locke, author of Blackwater Rising and The Cutting Season, "Adam Mansbach's Rage Is Back is a great, raucous ride-a lament for the hypocrisy of the present, as well as an ode to a lost NYC of the Eighties, where street art and cultural chaos were in constant struggle against greed and corruption. The voice of the narrator-melancholy and hilarious, acerbic and wise-leaps out from page one, grabs you and doesn't let go." -Danzy Senna , author of Caucasia, "Thrilling . . . Electric with rhythm . . . The book is peppered with grandfatherly revolutionaries, slang-slinging young bloods and an army of paint-wielding ninjas who unite with military precision on an ambitious plan to graffiti-bomb every single train car on the MTA." - Kirkus Reviews, " Rage Is Back is a gutsy act of cultural nostalgia, full of longing for a vanished New York, a chaotic, colorful city full of graffiti and guerilla art. Adam Mansbach is a fearless, funny, and thoroughly engaging writer." - Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Leftovers, "Mansbach was minding his own business as a respected novelist… when he pulled an extraordinary coup by writing the No. 1 New York Times best-selling Go the F**k To Sleep. His new novel [has] the same refreshing edginess. You don't have to be a New Yorker to enjoy this ode to urban ingenuity." - Library Journal, "A rollicking, frenetic and hilarious jaunt through the (literal and figurative) New York City underworld . . . [that] does for graffiti what Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay did for comic books . . . [Rage is Back] mashes up disparate linguistic registers with an effortlessness that brings to mind Junot Diaz's perennial narrator, Junior . . . Beneath all the weed and spray paint, it's a warmhearted story about a son searching for his father and for himself, a trip through the past and present of an American art form." -David Lukas, San Francisco Chronicle , "Hits the ground running and never stops . . . Mansbach's sharp and edgy style carries this fresh story in and out of subway tunnels and through the grimiest neighborhoods of New York, bringing the New York of now and then together in full relief." - Heather Paulson, Booklist , "A muscular ode to New York City's 1980s art underground . . . Combines a poet's touch with the wild sparks of a subway train speeding through a graffiti-splashed tunnel." -Elle Magazine , "An ambitious and immersive look into the New York graffiti scene. A finely detailed, richly colored work drawn with an artful hand." - Chuck Hogan, author of The Town, " Rage Is Back is a gutsy act of cultural nostalgia, full of longing for a vanished New York, a chaotic, colorful city full of graffiti and guerilla art. Adam Mansbach is a fearless, funny, and thoroughly engaging writer." - Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Leftovers , "Mansbach has clearly had a play date with Michael Chabon and Junot Diaz, and his fresh, witty novel is one that hip readers will relish . . . Laced with zaniness and cultural bling." - Ron Charles, Washington Post "A rollicking, frenetic and hilarious jaunt through the (literal and figurative) New York City underworld . . . [that] does for graffiti what Michael Chabon''s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay did for comic books . . . [Rage is Back] mashes up disparate linguistic registers with an effortlessness that brings to mind Junot Diaz's perennial narrator, Junior . . . Beneath all the weed and spray paint, it's a warmhearted story about a son searching for his father and for himself, a trip through the past and present of an American art form." -David Lukas, San Francisco Chronicle "Mansbach's wild ride will likely earn cult-classic status - and deservedly so . . . In Dondi, Mansbach has created an unforgettable narrator who combines elements of Holden Caulfield, Oscar Wao, and even a hint of Ignatius J. Reilly." -Eric Liebetrau, Boston Globe "Flashing bits of brilliance like a beautifully burned train . . . Mansbach can write with real talent, maybe crazy talent." -Kevin Baker, The New York Times Book Review "A hilarious revenge thriller. . . [that reads] something like watching a Quentin Tarantino film or listening to a Wu-Tang Clan album-perhaps simultaneously. This is a great thing. … Rage Is Back has humor and horror and humanity and is altogether fresh." -Kevin Coval, Chicago Tribune "Exuberant . . . Mansbach's paean to graffiti art . . . has a wild-style collage form that also ties in plot points involving a hallucinogenic vision-quest, the so-called 'mole people' said to live in the city's tunnels, and time travel." - The Wall Street Journal "A muscular ode to New York City's 1980s art underground . . . Combines a poet''s touch with the wild sparks of a subway train speeding through a graffiti-splashed tunnel." -Elle Magazine " Rage Is Back is a gutsy act of cultural nostalgia, full of longing for a vanished New York, a chaotic, colorful city full of graffiti and guerilla art. Adam Mansbach is a fearless, funny, and thoroughly engaging writer." - Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Leftovers "Adam Mansbach''s new novel is a trip! A trip through dimensions, drugs, and even an ingenious time machine. Rage is Back is hilarious and insightful, tender and surprising, but best of all it''s a tribute to the old heads, the bombers and taggers and the glory of writing in all its forms." - Victor LaValle , author of The Devil in Silver and Big Machine "Rage Is Back is a funny, macho-but-vulnerable coming-of-age-story. It's seeped in New York nostalgia and narrated in bright and vulgar prose that succeeds in hinting at no small quantity of swagger and soul. As Dondi says, 'it's not easy to talk from your heart and out your ass at the same time.' Delightfully, Rage Is Back manages to do both." -Daily Beast "A bracingly funny book [that] rekindles the golden age of graffiti." -Connie Ogle, Miami Herald "A cacophonous love letter to the old dirty, pre-gentrified New York." - New York Post "A fierce and funny thrill ride through the train yards and back streets of the graffiti underground. Mansbach writes with splendid rhythm and intensity." - San Jose Mercury News "A rambunctious ride through graffiti culture, filled with magical moments and outlandish situations . . . Like Tarantino, Mansbach has an ear for hip-hop." -Charles Ealy, Austin American-Statesman "Unfolding like a fever dream of an impossible return to graffiti-era New York, Mansbach's Rage Is Back delivers a mind-bending journey through a subterranean world of epic heroes and villains, and is already being called "the great American graffiti novel." A must-read for the literate hip-hop head." - OkayPlayer, "A rambunctious ride through graffiti culture, filled with magical moments and outlandish situations . . . Like Tarantino, Mansbach has an ear for hip-hop." -Charles Ealy, Austin American-Statesman , "Rage Is Back is a funny, macho-but-vulnerable coming-of-age-story. It's seeped in New York nostalgia and narrated in bright and vulgar prose that succeeds in hinting at no small quantity of swagger and soul. As Dondi says, 'it's not easy to talk from your heart and out your ass at the same time.' Delightfully, Rage Is Back manages to do both." - Daily Beast , "Adam Mansbach's new novel is a trip! A trip through dimensions, drugs, and even an ingenious time machine. Rage Is Back is hilarious and insightful, tender and surprising, but best of all it's a tribute to the old heads, the bombers and taggers and the glory of writing in all its forms." - Victor LaValle , author of The Devil in Silver and Big Machine , "Mansbach has clearly had a play date with Michael Chabon and Junot Diaz, and his fresh, witty novel is one that hip readers will relish . . . Laced with zaniness and cultural bling, it's a nostalgic tribute to the glory days of street art, back when New York City had character . . . There's no resisting [Dondi], 'a nerd with swagger,' as he riffs on everything from Madison Avenue to yuppies' racial anxiety . . . And who knows, his swirling descriptions might entice you to pick up an old can of Krylon." - Ron Charles, Washington Post , "Thrilling . . . Electric with rhythm . . . The book is peppered with grandfatherly revolutionaries, slang-slinging young bloods and an army of paint-wielding ninjas who unite with military precision on an ambitious plan to graffiti-bomb every single train car on the MTA." - Kirkus Reviews , "Adam has given us a lush tale of time travel, mysticism, justice, the adventures of a boy and his dad-woven into the fabric of a bygone era in NYC. Rage Is Back is fresh, compelling and nostalgic all at once-a must for lovers of graf culture and those of us who lived it. A great read." -Pharoahe Monch, "A muscular ode to New York City's 1980s art underground . . . Combines a poet's touch with the wild sparks of a subway train speeding through a graffiti-splashed tunnel." -Elle , "Exuberant . . . Mansbach's paean to graffiti art . . . has a wild-style collage form that also ties in plot points involving a hallucinogenic vision-quest, the so-called 'mole people' said to live in the city's tunnels, and time travel." - The Wall Street Journal Author:Adam MansbachLCCN:2012-019123Intended Audience:TradeItem Width:6.3 inbrand:Penguin Publishing GroupItem Weight:17.2 OzFormat:HardcoverISBN-13:9780670026128Dewey Edition:23Genre:FictionBook Title:Rage Is BackISBN-10:0670026123
This book is a wild ride—sharp, funny, and packed with energy. Mansbach’s writing crackles with wit and authenticity, blending graffiti culture, family drama, and a killer NYC vibe. The characters feel real, the story moves fast, and the humor hits hard. If you love edgy, smart storytelling with heart, this one’s a must-read.
This book is a wild ride—sharp, funny, and packed with energy. Mansbach’s writing crackles with wit and authenticity, blending graffiti culture, family drama, and a killer NYC vibe. The characters feel real, the story moves fast, and the humor hits hard. If you love edgy, smart storytelling with heart, this one’s a must-read.