{"product_id":"rough-beast-paperback","title":"Rough Beast - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdrian Van Young\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Percy LeBlanc, the lead singer and guitarist of up-and-coming New Orleans black metal band, Bethlehem, is brutally murdered after a disastrous performance on the last stretch of an even more disastrous tour, their unassuming wallflower of a bass player is arrested. Sammy Singerman is subsequently freed, with only circumstantial evidence to connect him to the crime, but he won't let the unquiet dead rest. Taking on the role of both detective and avenging angel, Sammy goes hell-for-leather to find Percy's killer, plumbing Bethlehem's history of trauma for answers before the killer finds him too. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA provocative subversion of the real-life saga of murder and criminal one-upmanship which plagued Scandinavia's own metal scene in the early 1990s, at once reminiscent of Elizabeth Hand's Cass Neary novels and Grace Krilanovich's \u003ci\u003eThe Orange Eats Creeps\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRough Beast\u003c\/i\u003e is a drug-soaked sewer ride straight into the grimy underbelly of the Big Easy, where nothing is sacred and nothing stays buried.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrian Van Young is the author of four books of fiction--most recently, a novel, \u003ci\u003eRough Beast\u003c\/i\u003e. His short fiction, essays and criticism have been published in \u003ci\u003eConjunctions, Guernica, BOMB, Granta, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, among many others. He lives in New Orleans with his family, where he teaches intermittently, but is mostly a professional freelance editor. Read more at: adrianvanyoung.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.41 x 5.41 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67894430925107,"sku":"9781625572226","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/EA7CETM2rh9781625572226.webp?v=1793695859","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/rough-beast-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}