Enter to win The Royal We by Roddy Bottum!

Enter to win The Royal We by Roddy Bottum! To enter the contest, fill out the form below between Tuesday, Nov 4, and Tuesday, November 24.

Brought to you by Roddy Bottum of Faith No More, The Royal We documents through prose his coming of age and out of the closet in 1980s San Francisco, a charged era of bicycle messengers, punk rock, street witches, wheatgrass, and rebellion. The book follows his travels from Los Angeles, growing up gay with no role models, to San Francisco, where he formed Faith No More and went on to tour the world relentlessly, surviving heroin addiction and the plight of AIDS, to become a queer icon. The book is an elevated wallop of tongue and insight, much more than a tell-all. There are personal tales of historical pinnacles like Kurt and Courtney, Guns N' Roses, and recaps of gold records and arena rock-but it's the testimonies of tragedy and addiction and preposterous life-spins that make this work so unique and intriguing.

Author Roddy Bottum. Phto by Joey Holman

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