Synopsis
About Adam Rapp
See more books from this AuthorFourteen-year-old Jamie (aka “Punkzilla” due to his love of the music) has gone AWOL from military school and is living in a halfway house in Portland, Ore., when he gets the news that his eldest brother Peter, a gay playwright, is dying of cancer in Memphis.
| Read Full Review of PunkzillaJamie, who has ADD, details every step (being taken advantage of sexually, getting jumped, befriending a female-to-male transsexual, losing his virginity) in expletive-filled, stream-of-consciousness narration with insights into seedy roadside America (“I think that as a general rule lonely peopl...
May 25 2009 | Read Full Review of PunkzillaTold in a series of letters to, but mostly from, Jamie, we learn why he was sent to Buckner military school, why he ran away from it but didn't go back to his parents in Ohio, and why P is also estranged from the rest of the family.Jamie's letters to P are all written in the notebook he carries w...
Oct 18 2011 | Read Full Review of PunkzillaOn the positive side, people help Jamie out, giving him rides and money. A boy Jamie knows sticks mechanical pencils in cats' anuses.
May 12 2009 | Read Full Review of PunkzillaBrian Bartels sits down with Adam Rapp–prolific playwright, musician, director, and novelist–to talk about his latest book, Punkzilla, and the mysterious process by which the words we create are shaped by music.
May 18 2009 | Read Full Review of PunkzillaThere are other letters, arranged out of sequence, written to Jamie from his family and friends that help explain why Jamie makes some of the decisions he makes, but it is the letters he writes that really reveal the grim reality of where he is in life and just how far he might have to go to surv...
May 12 2009 | Read Full Review of PunkzillaAn aggregated and normalized score based on 14 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes