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  • Published: 19 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9781783525065
  • Imprint: Unbound Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

Johnny Ruin



A cutting-edge novel about a man on a road trip through his own mind with Jon Bon Jovi

If a tree falls in a forest and Jon Bon Jovi is with you when it happens, is it still a figment of your imagination?
Haunted by the idea that he is somehow broken, the narrator – a depressed, heartbroken, thirty-something writer – embarks on a journey through his own mind with his spirit guide, Jon Bon Jovi, for company.

From the redwoods of California to a crumbling New York City, they travel the highways of our narrator’s memory, an imagined America, where his thoughts are tangled with fragments from the songs and movies that shaped him, and where he can’t help but replay scenes from his doomed relationship.

When his ex-girlfriend turns up demanding that he forget her, he must decide whether he’s ready to let go…

  • Published: 19 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9781783525065
  • Imprint: Unbound Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

Praise for Johnny Ruin

A great big howl from the abyss of a broken heart. Incredible

Richard Skinner

If you found yourself in a dark wood in the middle of your life, who would you want to lead you out of it? Virgil or Jon Bon Jovi? Dan Dalton chose the latter for a guide and the result is this marvellously strange and sad novel, shot through with a dark gleaming wit

Jenny Offill

Strange, intense... brilliant

S. J. Watson
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