Trailer for Nocturne Variations

Posted on April 15, 2018 by John Biscello

This is the first literary trailer for Nocturne Variations, my new novel, which will be released this November (Unsolicited Press).

Watch here.

ABOUT: Dystopic Peter Pan meets surrealist noir in this cinemythical tale about love, loss and the illusions of shadow-play.

Los Angeles, December, 1989, is when we first meet the seventeen-year-old Piers, a runaway and a savant puppeteer. Addicted to Sike, an experimental drug which promises a surrogate return to Childhood, Piers, in an act of revenge, robs a briefcase full of Sike from her dealer and flees L.A., pursued by two hit men. Hiding out in a stark Southwestern town called Redline, where she meets and is taken in by a man named Henry Hook, Piers is soon confronted by the buried trauma of her past and the ghosts risen from old haunts.

Comprising a jigsaw synthesis of narrative, journal entries, letters, monologues, film footage, poems, photographs, and press clippings, Nocturne renders an interior world of fragments and parallels, and casts a tinted light on that neverland between dreaming and waking.

About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag, two poetry collections, Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street; and a fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined. His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.

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11 Responses to Trailer for Nocturne Variations

erroneouschoices says:

April 15, 2018 at 12:17 pm

Excited 🙂

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- John Biscello says:
  
  April 15, 2018 at 12:24 pm
  
  Me too! Piers, the protagonist of this here tale, is sort of the love-child of Edie Sedgwick and Holden Caulfield, with a bit of Joan of Arc burned in for good measure 😉
  
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  - erroneouschoices says:
    
    April 15, 2018 at 12:28 pm
    
    Ah well, more excited now! 😍
    
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  - John Biscello says:
    
    April 15, 2018 at 12:32 pm
    
    Heart-eyes, cool. What would be even cooler, if I were the creator of Emoticonese, a Pac-Man with heart-shaped sunglasses, like the ones little girls wear. Where o where is that emoticonartistry?
    
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  - erroneouschoices says:
    
    April 15, 2018 at 12:38 pm
    
    🤩 there’s that one
    
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  - John Biscello says:
    
    April 15, 2018 at 12:41 pm
    
    Looks like a zonked-out Pac-Man with braces. Must be my cyber-deficiencies, eh 🙂
    
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  - erroneouschoices says:
    
    April 15, 2018 at 12:43 pm
    
    Lol…. it’s a Pac-Man with star eyes 🤔
    Someday you need upgraded cyber efficiencies
    
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  - John Biscello says:
    
    April 15, 2018 at 12:45 pm
    
    I’ll thank you kindly not to dismiss my cyber efficiencies in a pubic forum, Miss Choices 😉
    
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saynotoclowns says:

April 17, 2018 at 7:36 pm

Sounds fascinating.

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- John Biscello says:
  
  April 17, 2018 at 10:04 pm
  
  Stay tuned 🙂
  
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  - saynotoclowns says:
    
    April 19, 2018 at 6:31 am
    
    🙂
    
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