David Bowie's Diamond Dogs -- Glenn Hendler, Paperback Pierre Clémenti Billy Jenkins (Trevor Donovan)

Billy Jenkins (Trevor Donovan)

Albert French lights up the monstrous face of American racism in this harrowing tale of ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner

and shock troops

From becoming an atheist at age eleven in the rural Midwest

Musically speaking

David Bowie's Diamond Dogs -- Glenn Hendler, Paperback Pierre Clémenti Billy Jenkins (Trevor Donovan)After his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U. S. pop hits Fame and Golden Years David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post apocalyptic Hunger City populated by post human mutants. Diamond Dogs includes the great glam anthem Rebel Rebel and utterly unique songs that combine lush romantic piano and nearly operatic singing with scratching, grungy guitars, creepy, insidious noises, and dark, pessimistic lyrics