Orf

HYSTERIA, VIOLENCE, LUST—ORF IS WHERE IT'S AT! The audience of young, turned-on teenagers are going mad for Orf. They're screaming like a thousand drowning mice, tearing the place apart…they could eat him alive! They come in their beads, seeds, bone, vinyl flesh, leather, hair, tight tight, wanting—and wanting more. His life is a red swirling mandala of music, love, bad raps, pain and agony. His world is made of fame, money, the adulation of the masses, and he can't slow down or stop. They'll take anything they can get from Orf…crazy singer-god! David Meltzer has written a taut, powerful novel that strips off the cool from the hip generation to reveal its sordid, desperate underworld, where survival is a matter of selling drugs, sex…and even souls; where the sounds of rock and roll become the cries of unfulfilled desire, a lament for the death of young dreams. Orf is savage, vibrating with the erotic pulse of tormented youth.