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The Last Time I Died
Joe Nelms
• Fight Club meets American Psycho
• For fans of Chuck Palahniuk’s early work
• Visceral and unforgettable debut novel
Fiction
ISBN: 9781440571800
UPC: 045079571808
$16.99 (CAN $18.99)
Paperback
5½ x 8½, 208 pages
North American English Rights
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Joe Nelms
New York City, NY
JoeNelmsNYC.WordPress​.com
Joe has worked in senior positions at DMB&B,
Grey, BBDO and Warner Bros., serving clients like
Pepsi, GE, Campbell’s, the Harry Potter series, and
The Matrix Trilogy. Joe was co-founder, artistic
director, producer, and director of Live On Tape, a
live sketch comedy show that was bought by NBC
and turned into ten hilarious episodes. He also cowrote
the teen horror parody film Shriek If You Know
What I Did Last Friday The 13th.
Christian Franco is truly embracing the despair of divorce, doing nothing
to slow the implosion of his career, friendships, and relationships. He camps
out at bars and picks fights, finding that getting his ass kicked allows him his
only meditative moments, something he explores with sardonic zeal.
Nine years of his childhood are entirely repressed, a consequence of his father
killing his mother when Christian was eight. But a single clear memory
resurfaces when Christian is beaten to death in a bar brawl: a memory of
his stoop in Brooklyn, his father in the back of a cop car, and his mother
being wheeled away on a gurney. He is resuscitated, and he craves more
memories.
What follows is Christian’s increasingly desperate means to kill himself and
be revived, slowly piecing together snapshots from his childhood to understand
how this rediscovered self-knowledge could make his wife come back.
Alternating between heartbreaking memories of a happier time, Christian
revels in the underbelly of New York City in a spectacular downward spiral.
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