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The Age of Anxiety

A Novel

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By Pete Townshend

Read by Michael Jayston

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  1. Audiobook Download (Unabridged)
  2. ebook $11.99 $15.99 CAD
  3. Trade Paperback $17.00 $23.00 CAD
  4. Audiobook CD (Unabridged) $30.00 $38.00 CAD

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In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends.

A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he has become a hermit and a painter of apocalyptic visions.

An art dealer has drug-induced visions of demonic faces swirling in a bedstead and soon his wife disappears, nowhere to be found.

A beautiful Irish girl who has stabbed her father to death is determined to seduce her best friend’s husband.

A young composer begins to experience aural hallucinations, expressions of the fear and anxiety of the people of London. He constructs a maze in his back garden.

Driven by passion and musical ambition, events spiral out of control — good drugs and bad drugs, loves lost and found, families broken apart and reunited. Conceived jointly as an opera, The Age of Anxiety deals with mythic and operatic themes. Hallucinations and soundscapes haunt this novel in an extended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity.

Genre:

  • "A cracking story about sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll."
    Mail on Sunday EVENT
  • "A dazzling whirligig of a novel, featuring reclusive rock stars-turned-seers, visions of heaven and hell, young musical pretenders, artists and groupies."
    Daily Express
  • "Setting his novel in the milieu he knows in all its excess, Townshend directs a cast of memorable characters while examining themes of creativity, genius, music, and love."
    Daily Mail
  • "The scope of The Age of Anxiety is broader than first appears: this modern-day fable dwells on creativity and madness."
    Radio Times

On Sale
Nov 5, 2019
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781478976813

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Pete Townshend

About the Author

Pete Townshend is the lead guitarist and principal songwriter of The Who — one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century, selling over 100 million records worldwide — and the composer of the rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia.

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