Godlike

Fiction. Richard Hell's second novel, GODLIKE, is set largely in the early 70s, but structured as a middle-aged poet's 1997 notebooks and drafts for a memoir-novel. The book recounts the story of a young man's affair with a remarkable teenage poet. GODLIKE is a novel of compelling originality and transcendent beauty. "[Hell's] every move and word reveal a naked, impassioned intelligence in the throes of the only truly rock & roll artistic convulsion"--Lester Bangs.

Richard Hell is best known as one of the originators of "punk." His records include Blank Generation (1977), Destiny Street (1982), Dim Stars (1992), Time (2002), and Spurts (2005). His reputation as a writer has been steadily building as his books and essays have appeared in the last fifteen years. Foremost among them, Hell's novel Go Now was published in 1996, and Hot and Cold, a collection of his nonfiction, poetry, and art, followed in 2001.