Burn Down the House
Brenn huset ned
A novel about The Clash in the USA.
Joe sits in his hotel room with jetlag and aching hands. New York is going to be all his, but on the TV screen he sees the announcement of his own death.
Mick grew up at his grandmothers, with piss in the flat stairwells and a guitar as his only way out. Finally he´s become everything he´d always dreamed of being.
Paul is the most handsome boy of his generation, but Pearl is the only one he wants. Beautiful Pearl who´s been hurried to hospital in a coma.
Topper is the King of Broadway, the best drummer in the world for two hours every night. He spends the rest of the day trying to destroy himself.
Burn Down the House is the story of four men who made up an exceptional punk band. The book opens in the summer of 1981, New York is in the grip of a heat wave and of English rock´n´roll. The band is at the height of their success and close to the edge. Frode Grytten portrays the group who rejuvenated rock with an aggression and an intensity that captured the zeitgeist of the late 1970s.
Burn Down the House propels at a pace that mirrors its main characters – Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon. The story takes the reader back to a different time, place and headspace. It´s the early 1980s. Things are changing – culturally, economically and politically. The Clash and British music are conquering the USA.
This novel is made to be read with the soundtrack up full and is filled with biographical titbits for hard core fans of The Clash.
