Playing with Fire and Water: Dualities in Bud Smith’s “F-250”

0. Sex. Drugs. Rock and roll. Those damn kids and their music. Beginning with chapter 0 and ending with chapter “Ace,” Bud Smith’s F-250 is a coming-of-age story of guitarist/mason Lee Casey. Smith creates a stunning world where dualities crash and burn. While the titular F-250 literally crashes into anyone unfortunate enough to be stopped in front of Casey, the concepts of dreams and nightmares, love and hate, music and silence, home and vagrancy, escape and return, as well as […]

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