Gutter to the Stars - Paperback

by Latimer Redlance (Author)

Can those who yearn to truly LIVE stomach a life of quiet correctness?

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets On The Road in this visceral Gen-X memoir of chaos, music, and hard-won redemption. Gutter to the Stars: Memories of a Post-Grunge Drifter follows one relentless anti-hero through decades of beautiful disasters as he pushes his life past every breaking point-and somehow survives to tell ​t​he tales.

From the frozen Gulf Islands of 1980s Canada to the brutal regime of a New Zealand boarding school. From the feral bush raves of 90s Aotearoa to the Gothic rooftops and unforgiving streets of early-2000s Sydney. This is the story of a generation that spat in the face of safety.

Along the way: chance encounters with Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman, a young Ryan Gosling, and a cast of misfits who prove that art, rebellion, and madness don't just intertwine-they ​​explode.

These stories shouldn't be possible​ and may seem hardly believable. But every word is true.

Wildly funny, brutally honest, and seared into memory, this is nostalgia with teeth​.​ Proof that some of us were born to live on the edge and somehow not fall off. For those who were there: your time machine. For those who weren't: a window into a world you thought was myth.

Burn bright. Burn loud. Just don't burn out.