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Never Mind Nirvana |
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 Never Mind Nirvana byMark Lindquist Random House Canada (Villard Books) 239 pages, 2000 ISBN 067946302X Reviewed by our UK Editor Rachel A. Hyde This is a book about music and the effect it has on most people’s lives. Pete Tyler used to play with a band in Seattle but now he feels that he is past all that. As a deputy prosecutor, he still feels a part of the music scene that has changed although he hasn’t. In short he needs to grow up and get a life – and a wife. Suddenly there are more important things to worry about as a date-rape case is handed to him, bringing his lost youth back to him with a bang. The humor and tragedy of modern life, growing up, and the music business are the themes of this delightfully irreverent but inquisitive novel. Never Mind Nirvana jumps in with both feet from the first page and holds the reader’s attention with its pacey, hip style and easy-to-identify-with delineation of pop culture. Life today is lived with music as a soundtrack just like a film, and you cannot separate the two. Lindquist’s message touches something in most of us. Easy to read, it deceptively slides into the subconscious and stays there. Insidious? Yes, and very effective. |
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