"Hip deep in music, Never Mind Nirvana is a telling inside view that perfectly captures the rhythms and sights of late-nineties Seattle." — Peter Buck, guitarist of R.E.M. Pete Tyler is at a crossroads. Eight years ago he dropped out of a seminal Seattle grunge band to try his hand at a more grown-up calling. Now he's thirty-six ("almost forty!"), a deputy prosecutor (a suit), still hanging out at the same clubs he played ten years ago (the ones that haven't shut down), and still dating the same kind of girls (except now they tell him how much their older sisters loved his band). Pete decides it's time to get married—he just doesn't know to whom. Possibilities include Beth, his first love, who has disappeared; Winter, his on-and-off stripper girl-friend, who has been living the grunge life too long; and Esme´, a Sub Pop A&amp;R executive who has some life decisions of her own to make. When a date-rape case lands on his desk—the accused is a local rocker Pete's age, the accuser an eighteen-year-old from the scene—Pete finds his past and present facing him from both sides of the aisle, and he finally has to decide where he stands. Pete Tyler is a cooler version of Everyguy, and Never Mind Nirvana is a hilarious and unexpectedly moving story of a man with one foot stuck in adolescence and the other planted in adulthood. Richly textured with references to classic rock and the music of Seattle's legendary alternative rock scene, it is also a fascinating, bittersweet riff on a particularly American zeitgeist.

Never Mind Nirvana: A Novel

Lindquist, Mark

Literature & Fiction

Villard

Sad Movies

United States

Atlantic Monthly Pr

A brat pack of ambitious young Hollywood actors and executives struggle to preserve their careers, and their loves, in an environment that encourages early burnout

Carnival Desires

Atlantic Monthly Press

Learn how to use both traditional and nontraditional tools and techniques. Step-by-step projects for sculptures, decorative pieces, chairs, bowls, and more. âItâs a beauty...an inspiration...expect to return to time and again.ââPopular Woodworking.

Sculpting Wood: Contemporary Tools & Techniques

Davis Publications, Incorporated

Learn how to use both traditional and nontraditional tools and techniques. Step-by-step projects for sculptures, decorative pieces, chairs, bowls, and more. “It’s a beauty...an inspiration...expect to return to time and again.”—Popular Woodworking.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Davis

A tale based on today's headlines as well as the author's work as a prosecuting attorney follows veteran police detective Wyatt James's dangerous investigation into the organization of a powerful methamphetamine distributor. By the author of Never Mind Nirvana. 75,000 first printing.

The King of Methlehem: A Novel

Simon&Schuster

From a widely acclaimed author and prominent prosecutor, an electrifying novel that deftly penetrates America's latest and fastest-growing drug epidemic Detective Wyatt James is a veteran police officer with the Meth Lab team in Pierce County, Washington -- an epicenter of methamphetamine production. At the core of the local meth problem is the elusive, self-proclaimed "King of Meth-lehem." The king moves from one shelter to another, relying on the kindness and desperation of a variety of women. He's the top meth cook in the region, a dangerously successful identity thief, and he travels under a number of famous aliases, among them Lars Ulrich, Peter Farrelly, Ted Nugent, and most recently Howard Schultz. Wyatt has been chasing Howard relentlessly, but the pursuit has become a fixation that threatens to destroy Wyatt's personal life and disrupt the lives of his bookish girlfriend, Suki, who just moved into his loft, and his best friend, Mike, a prosecutor -- and perhaps involve them all in a dangerously volatile situation. Neither Suki nor Mike nor Wyatt's supervisor seems able to deter him from his obsessive hunt. Though Wyatt is closing in on him, Howard is on the verge of a breakthrough as he transforms his small-time "guerrilla" cooking into a large-scale meth lab. As he becomes more ambitious, plotting to stay one move ahead of Wyatt and rival dealers, he descends to fascinating levels of addiction, paranoia, egoism, and madness. His newfound success forces him to take greater risks, and his list of enemies becomes more extensive and more dangerous. The king will not go down without a fight. With startling precision and compelling prose, the author of Never Mind Nirvana once again brings his insight and wit to a topical slice of our popular culture. Lindquist takes us deep into the heart of what has become America's most dangerous drug epidemic, exposing the complex and horrifying lengths to which addicts -- tweekers -- will go for their meth, as well as the extraordinary challenges that society faces in eradicating a nationwide plague.

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Never Mind Nirvana: A Novel

Never Mind Nirvana: A Novel

Sad Movies

Carnival Desires

Sculpting Wood: Contemporary Tools & Techniques

Sculpting Wood: Contemporary Tools & Techniques

The King of Methlehem: A Novel

The King of Methlehem: A Novel