Book Feature: Pepperland by Barry Wightman
BOOK DETAILS
Paperback, $18.95
Paperback, $18.95
ISBN: 9780984786039
Fiction, 320 pages
Running Meter Press, May 21, 2013
What happens when one
revolution dies and a new one begins?
Think the Ramones meet Jane Fonda meets Bill Gates—a love
story—where one woman has all the power.
She asks him—do you
want to play your little rock 'n’ roll songs or change the world? He
says—both.
Pepperland is a
‘70s rock and roll race through the heartland of America—a love letter to the
power of new-fangled computers and the importance of a guitar pick. Pepperland
is about missing information, missing people, missing guitars, paranoia, Q
& A, brothers, revolution, Agents of the Federal Government, IBM, Hugh
Hefner, a Dark Stranger, love, death and the search for it amidst the wreckage of recession-wracked, entropically rundown
mid-seventies America.
Sound familiar?
About the Author:
Born in St. Louis, raised in Chicago and New England, Wightman, a
business major at Principia College in southern Illinois, claims he should’ve
been an English major. Living for many years in Chicago and Minneapolis, he
raised a family with his wife Jill, and spent thirty years in the high tech industry,
traveling the world, spending time in Silicon Valley, with countless trips to Asia,
Australia, and much of the rest of the world. After all that, he earned an MFA
from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2010. He currently serves as vice
president of marketing at Forward Health Group, Inc.
Wightman is Fiction Editor for Hunger Mountain, a literary journal based
in Montpelier, Vermont. He is a talented voiceover professional and a Wisconsin
Broadcasters Association award-winning essayist, whose work has been heard on WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio.
Wightman is a reviewer and editor for the Washington Independent
Review of Books. His music and book reviews have also appeared in various publications
in Chicago, Milwaukee and Washington D.C. He is a voting member of the National
Book Critics Circle.
This writer and lover of literature has lived in Elm Grove, Wisconsin
since 2005. He is married with three grown children and plays guitar and
keyboards in a rock ‘n’ roll band, The Outta State Plates.
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