Valkeakoski: Feels like Hopper

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Jaska Filppula (b. 1965) hails from the Ostrobothnian village of
Koskenkorva, the vodka capital of Finland. After stints living in Turku,Helsinki, and Spain, he and his family have settled in Valkeakoski. Guest List is Filppula’s fifth novel.

After this very humble and short example of my writing I'll only try to raise your interest & eye brows by telling that my first three novels took their milieu in America.

First one, Chicago 1959 told a story of a blues band and record manufacturing in proper DIY manner.

Second, Virginia City, 1965 described how LSD entered California and blues became whitened.

Third, Kauniita ilmoja (Bel Air), 1967 closed the circuit by telling how music industry ate the hippies.

Guest List's Finnish version has 373 pages. Novel came out August 2012.

If You show any interest towards this excerpt, show it!

I didn’t need to go around looking for Nick Cave.

A manic road novel that swears by the logic of chaos follows a wannabe author and rock journalist as he staggers around Europe and Australia

Our young protagonist lives his life according to an idiosyncratic precept: Don’t aim for anything. Drift, wait and jump in at the right minute.

And his unique tactic also works: living by it, he meets the right people, gets his name on guest lists, enters backstages and tour buses, and most importantly, writes truthfully, without any restraints. As by some strange and inevitable logic, he also treads in his idol Nick Cave’s footsteps again and again. Bit by bit the reality behind music comes maybe even too close.

The irresistible flow of Filppula’s language sucks readers in, has them gasping for breath, punches the air out of them, and fills them with its vital force. More, please!

Valkeakoski

perjantai 10. lokakuuta 2014

Feels like Hopper

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