Bag of Tricks
Mixed Stories of Life as a San Francisco Punk in the early 80’s BOOK ONE OF A PUNK TRILOGY by Ruby Dee Philippa
BAG OF TRICKS is a compilation of short stories about San Francisco punks in the early 80’s.
These vignettes stand alone yet bleed into one another. Meet the band The Shits, their groupies The Clits, and an array of colourful characters who populate these streets, squats and punk shows. With them, we cop drugs, shoot up, dumpster dive, trip around The City, go to punk shows and slip between the cracks of society.
Most of the stories are true, although some of the details may or may not have happened...
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Read Full Review“Ruby takes us on a roller coaster ride, sharing with us this very specific time, place, and culture, in a way that makes the reader feel they are actually there on the journey with these complex, flawed, but beautiful characters - all just trying to get by, in a spectacularly detailed and complex universe. I highly recommend this book if you are looking for adventure and a glimpse into a wild world of wonderful characters!”
"The stories are great. I love the way it is written. Totally invested in the characters and their well-being. So well written that i can picture the details in-depth and feel like I am."
"I loved this book. It's a raw look at the San Francisco punk scene in the 80s. The characters are layered with a million flaws and I can't wait to see what they get up to in book 2."
Tricky Business
Mixed Stories of Life as a San Francisco Punk in the early 80’s BOOK Two OF A PUNK TRILOGY by Ruby Dee Philippa
BAG OF TRICKS is a compilation of short stories about San Francisco punks in the early 80’s.
Tricky Business is book two of the BAG OF TRICKS trilogy: a compilation of short stories about San Franciso punks in the early 80’s. Continue to share the adventures of The Shits, Val, Sophie, Amy, Babe, Annie, Carla, Marco and other denizens of the punk scene as they spread out across The City attending punk shows, doing drugs and other mischief to themselves and one another, and maybe learning a thing or two about survival on the outside.
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Old tricks, new treats
Mixed Stories of Life as a San Francisco Punk in the early 80’s BOOK Three OF A PUNK TRILOGY by Ruby Dee Philippa
BAG OF TRICKS is a compilation of short stories about San Francisco punks in the early 80’s.
Follow the adventures of The Shits, Val, Sophie, Babs, Carla, Red, Marco, Bags and all the rest of the rag-tag gang of street punks that populate these stories. Ride with them as they hit new highs and lows, make mostly bad and occasionally good choices, and aim for uncharted lives in the end.
For everyone who shaved their head or dyed their hair funny colors in spikes and other shapes. Who wore ratty jeans with holes in them before that became a thing, and vintage clothes that still smelled like the folks who wore them before. Who panhandled for cigs and drugs and other necessities, and occupied places others had abandoned, just as they dismissed us.
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