Description
The debut novel from S.Fairbank, Abbreviated Minor. A raw, darkly humorous coming-of-age story of an aspiring teenage musician trying to escape the decadent California counterculture of the mid-1970s and join the punk rock scene in New York. Paperback edition.
The time: The mid-1970s.
The Place: California’s Monterey Peninsula.
16-year-old musician Serge Durand never knew his father. He’s just been abandoned by his mother. He’s homeless without money or prospects. Forced into premature adulthood as an “abbreviated minor”, Serge finds himself on his own in a decadent world of the wildest teens, hippies, and hustlers of the California coast.
But despite the distractions and temptations, his eyes stay fixed 3,000 miles away – on New York City, where the hottest bands of the punk music scene are, so he can be a part of the excitement and become a music legend in his own right. Dreams of New York burn inside Serge every waking moment. But when he gets fired from one lowly job after another, his dream isn’t getting closer to reality, it’s getting further away. With no one to turn to, no money, and rent due in a week, Serge decides to bet everything on one last attempt to see his dream come true.
Abbreviated Minor is a darkly humorous novel that strips away the romanticism of the 1970s counterculture to reveal the rebel heart of a young artist fighting for his future.