Rekviem för John Cummings

John Cummings, the punk guitarist the world knew as Johnny Ramone, has quit the stage after two decades on tour when a cancer diagnosis arrives; Joey and Dee Dee from the band have both died already. Looking back, he revisits the military academy in Peekskill, labouring jobs in New York and the Ramones years, when he played and lived at breakneck speed. Loves, friendships and endless tours come back to him, betrayals he committed and suffered, and above all his long quarrel with Joey over Linda, Joey's girlfriend before she married Johnny. Beneath this sun-drenched, surprisingly sad book lies Vilhelm Moberg's late novel about an elderly Swedish emigrant reviewing his life in Laguna Beach.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

450 pages in the original

Set in

United States

First published

2011 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9789100126377 (original)