Godlike

About this book

Fiction. Richard Hells second novel GODLIKE is set largely in the early 70s but structured as a middle-aged poets 1997 notebooks and drafts for a memoir-novel. The book recounts the story of a young mans affair with a remarkable teenage poet. GODLIKE is a novel of compelling originality and transcendent beauty. "Hells every move and word reveal a naked impassioned intelligence in the throes of the only truly rock & roll artistic convulsion"--Lester Bangs.