Lords: Part One is here!
Local Bakersfield author N.L. Belardes’ novel
Lords: Part One is available for purchase online through literary press:
Noveltown. Order your copy today! Lords: Part One will be hitting local book stores in the next couple weeks and N.L. is scheduled for a book signing on
November 6, 2005 at 1:00pm at
Russo’s Book Store at the Marketplace. Other book tour dates
here. Lords: Part One is a fiction novel based on the ‘Lords of Bakersfield’ stories. I had the distinct privilege of being one of the few to read Lords: Part One before it was published and I will tell you it is a riveting story that keeps the reader ensconced in the dark world of its main character and torn between innocence and its inevitable corruption. Once you start reading… you can’t put it down. I can’t wait to read it again!
Lords: Part One Synopsis:In the Hollywood movie storms of 1977 where films like
Star Wars and
Close Encounters spawned a maelstrom of epic adventure and wonder for kids everywhere, such streets also spawned another breed of child. Bitter, alienated, and lost in the punk-influenced beginnings of a feel-good era of disco-enflamed junkies, such kids slunk the streets of Hollywood and Hollywood’s backyard: Bakersfield, California, where they preyed equally on the hands that held them.
Based on the 'Lords of Bakersfield' news stories of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Lords: Part One is the most controversial work of fiction to ever come out of the Southern San Joaquin Valley. It’s a story of media and high-profile corruption in a conservative city close to the Hollywood storm. For those who remember such a time, this story will sink its teeth into readers, just as that great dust storm of 1977 tore into the valley, spitting its own aliens onto Great Central Valley streets already taken over by unseen powers of the most corrupt kind…
"N.L. Belardes weaves the fog of humanness into a novel of boyhood decay." -Tony Blanche
"...the corruption of the San Joaquin from its stormy media center." -M.J. Forrest
"
The Cult Classic on Bakersfield for years to come." -Al Guevara
“I believe this is the most controversial novel out of Bakersfield to date. The stories woven paint a dark picture of alienation and media corruption within Bakersfield in the late 1970’s. This is an important literary step in my career and a work that already has a cult following even prior to its release…” –N.L. BelardesHelp the literary arts flourish in Bakersfield… get your copy of Lords: Part One today!
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