{"product_id":"9781933149172","title":"The Rise and Fall of Third Leg","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Anyone who’s an admirer of Richard Brautigan’s unclassifiable \u003ci\u003eTrout Fishing in America\u003c\/i\u003e will be drawn to the eccentric, wandering vision of Longhi’s prose.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Bay Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Longhi’s prose is carefully measured, engaging, laid-back.”— \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eighties were a crazy time in history: The Left had been crushed by the Reagan White House, most young people were not rebelling . . . in fact, many were more cynical and conservative than their parents. But amidst the widespread regression, a bizarre fungus was sprouting, and its cultural manifestation was punk rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories and novella in \u003ci\u003eThe Rise and Fall of Third Leg \u003c\/i\u003e illustrate just how bent out of shape some punks were: They knew something was really wrong and rotten in America. These side-splittingly funny short stories relive the twisted glory days of homegrown DIY punk rock, from “Road Trip,” in which four benevolent urban skinheads venture forth to rural Montana for a friend’s wedding, to the title novella, which follows the absurd trials and tribulations of a small-town Delaware punk band, Third Leg, as its dreams of superstardom get flushed away in a series of hilarious catastrophes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJon Longhi\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books, including \u003ci\u003eWake Up and Smell the Beer.\u003c\/i\u003e His writing, which critics have compared to Terry Southern, Charles Bukowski, and Hunter S. Thompson, has also recently appeared in \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Noir\u003c\/i\u003e (Akashic Books) and \u003ci\u003e Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e (Pluto Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manic D Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039804178672,"sku":"9781933149172","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933149172_p0.jpg?v=1763640124","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933149172","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}