Overlook

A Rock and Roll Fable

By: Paul Smart

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Paperback | 1 October 2023

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256 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.47

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An exploration of musical legacy, Overlook: A Rock and Roll Fable delves into the mysteries of intuitive talent and creation. It is a dance between art and appreciation, between star and fan. It is a chronicle of the last journey of a fictionalized incarnation of the great singer Richard Manuel, of The Band, as he travels back to his adopted home of Woodstock. There he encounters Klokko, a lone mountain man, who is himself searching for meaning beyond the music that he has always turned to. The novel moves through landscapes redolent of mid-1980s America, and deep into the effect of rock and roll on our collective soul. It's about coming to terms with ourselves.

Industry Reviews

Within an evocative setting, Overlook: A Rock & Roll Fable explores the what-ifs of the late great Canadian musician Richard Manuel of The Band and his encounters with the mythical characters of Woodstock, New York - as only former upstate New Yorker and journalist Paul Smart can conjure. You'll be drawn in while longing to retrace their steps yourself.

---Holly George-Warren, author of Janis: Her Life and Music and other books

Written in a fever dream in a week in a cabin a la Kerouac. A man with the voice of an angel lives on.

---Annie Nocenti, Marvel Comics writer/editor, journalist, filmmaker

Paul Smart is a pre-eminent chronicler of Catskills history and culture. He captures the spirit and imagination of the place like few others.

---Raymond Foye, award-winning curator, editor, writer, and publisher (Hanuman Books)

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