叠测听Peter S. Roper聽(闯辞耻谤鈥�76)
(Amazon Digital Services, Inc., 297 pages; 2014)
Pumping gas in a small Colorado town in the summer of 1964 is hot, grimy work 鈥斅爀specially if you want to be a rock 鈥榥 roll star, like Bobby Masters and the members of his struggling band. When fate lets them chase that dream of screaming girls, spotlights and maybe even a guest spot on 鈥淎merican Bandstand,鈥� they don鈥檛 hesitate, even though it means pretending to be 鈥淭he Romeos鈥� 鈥斅燼n already successful band with a hit record on the radio. After all, who will find them out as they roam from Wyoming cowboy bars and battle-of-the-bands contests to playing a beach party at a tiny Nebraska college? And if they build a scandalous reputation for playing a raunchier son than 鈥淟ouie Louie,鈥� so much the better. Until the guys run headfirst into a curvy sorority girl who just won a darkest-tan contest at Daytona Beach. A liberated woman before her time, Susie turns the boys鈥� 1960s notions of romance inside out.聽The Romeo Boys聽is a coming-of-age story in that jarring time when rock 鈥榥 roll was innocent, but the nation was not.