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There is confidence and grace in these pages, characters that feel pulled from daily life, none of their rough edges sanded down. Adam Wilson, author of Sensation Machines It’s a book that will haunt me for a long time to come.” With a sharp ear and an unsparing eye, Franz Nicolay has reinvented the road novel, stripping it of wide-eyed, Kerouac-ian grandeur to expose the frozen landscapes-both external and internal-that are part and parcel of a rootless existence.
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“ Someone Should Pay for Your Pain is a poignant and powerfully honest meditation on aging, art-making, and failure. Cari Luna, author of The Revolution of Every Day He crafts a story that any reader, mired in the daily disappointments of what their life was supposed to have been, can embrace.” In this beautifully and brutally honest novel, Franz Nicolay challenges our romantic notions of freedom and the working artist’s life. “Rudy Pauver is a middle-aged musician with mid-level talent, still out there on the road, still grinding, still trying, but he’s not quite sure why. Rudy, the book’s hero, lays down insights into art making as well as the wide variety of hangovers all the while moving fitfully toward a great dilation of care.” Nicolay’s book focuses on the illusion of stardom and the reality that most musicians play mainly in dingy clubs to sparse if passionate fans. Franz Nicolay’s Someone Should Pay for Your Pain smashes Don Delillo’s Great Jones Street against a chaste Lolita. “If you’ve been waiting for the great rock and roll novel look no further. Terry, author of the novels Black Card and Zero Fade “Franz Nicolay’s poetic takedown of a musician’s extended adolescence goes down smoother than a drink ticket beer. Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask and Hark You just might have to fight yourself for it.” But as Franz Nicolay shows in this stunning fiction debut, there is still hope. “Wise, brutal and funny, Someone Should Pay for Your Pain is a bruising and beautiful glimpse of the endless tour of broken dreams some of us call life. Someone Should Pay for Your Pain is a marvel, and when I finished it, my first emotion was to return to the opening pages and read it all over again.” “I love this for novel for its sensitivity to the tenderness and absurdity of human after human, city after city, year after year. “Nicolay’s pitch-perfect observations make his story intriguing and all too true, zooming by like trees on the side of the highway.” A heart-bruising story - like Dostoevsky in a DIY punk space.”