Hairstyles of the Damned Paperback by Joe Meno

Product Details

• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd. (2004-09-07)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 278 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781888451702
• Item Weight: 226.8 grams
• Dimensions: 19.41 x 13.31 x 1.91 cm

The debut novel from Akashic’s new imprint, Punk Planet Books. Also check out the smash hits How the Hula Girl Sings, Tender as Hellfire, and The Boy Detective Fails.

“A funny, hard-rocking first-person tale of teenage angst and discovery.” —Booklist

“Captures the loose, fun, recklessness of midwestern punk.” —MTV.com

Hairstyles of the Damned is an honest, true-life depiction of growing up punk on Chicago’s south side: a study in the demons of racial intolerance, Catholic school conformism, and class repression. It is the story of the riotous exploits of Brian, a high school burnout, and his best friend, Gretchen, a punk rock girl fond of brawling. Based on the actual events surrounding a Chicago high school’s segregated prom, this work of fiction unflinchingly pursues the truth in discovering what it means to be your own person.

About the Author

JOE MENO is a fiction writer and journalist who lives in Chicago. Winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a finalist for the Story Prize, Meno is the best-selling author of several novels and short story collections including Marvel and a Wonder, The Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, and Hairstyles of the Damned; he also edited Chicago Noir: The Classics. He is a professor in the English and Creative Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago. Book of Extraordinary Tragedies is his latest work.