![]() ![]() Ackerley's honesty, intimacy, and ease of style. The novel aches with adolescent first loves. A haunting vision of young friendship shattered by an outrageously cruel world. ![]() ![]() Burroughs was an early fan, Clicking Beat remains remarkably current and continues to be unique in coming of age literature. So beautiful, brave, and ahead of its time that William S. Set in Arkansas but first published in Amsterdam, Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (published under the title of Cody in the U.S.) quickly won praise from reviewers and readers across Europe and North America. By turns funny, romantic, erotic, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate. ![]()
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