Surfing Armageddon: Fishnets, Fascists and Body Fluids in Florida

George Tabb
280 pages (Fall 2006); 2.0MB download
Soft Skull Press; ISBN: 1-932360-99-9

DESCRIPTION

"Fistfights, bodily functions and raucous comedy fill this thin, episodic childhood memoir from seminal New York City punk musician (Furious George)/journalist (The New York Press)." Tabb's wry recollections of growing up will be darkly funny and all-too-familiar to anyone who still smarts at memories of middle school.
- Publishers Weekly

Having moved from the richest suburb in America to a plantation in Florida (which his father dreams of recreating as Tara, the mansion from Gone with the Wind), George Tabb enters late adolescence with a black leather jacket and a penchant for punk rock -- quirks that don't sit well with his conservative Southern classmates. In Surfing Armageddon, Tabb shares his painfully funny recollections of teenage rebellion, family turmoil, and an abusive father with black humor and real humanity.