

Ackerley’s honesty, intimacy, and ease of style.

Burroughs, author of Naked LunchĬommands much of J.R. The novel aches with adolescent first loves. Burroughs was an early fan, Clicking Beat remains remarkably current and continues to be unique in coming of age literature.Ī haunting vision of young friendship shattered by an outrageously cruel world. So beautiful, brave, and ahead of its time that William S. as Cody) quickly won praise from reviewers and readers across Europe and North America.

Set in Arkansas but first published in Amsterdam, Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (published in the U.S. By turns funny, romantic, erotic, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate.
