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From Pixies front man, Black Francis, comes a bold and visually arresting illustrated novel about art, conflict, and the origins of a certain type of cinema.In 1907, the French battleship Iéna was destroyed when munitions it was carrying exploded, killing 120 people. A nitrocellulose-based weapon propellant had become unstable with age and self-ignited.In 1908, La Bonne Auberge became the earliest known pornographic film. It depicted a sexual encounter between a French soldier and an innkeeper’s daughter. Like all films at the time, and for decades afterward, it was made with a highly combustible nitrocellulose-based film stock.Loosely based on these historical events, The Good Inn follows the lone survivor of the Iéna explosion as he makes his way through the French countryside, has a sexual adventure with an innkeeper’s daughter, and even more deeply into a strange counter universe.
About the Author
'Josh Frank is a Writer, Producer, Director and Composer. He has penned numerous Plays (including an authorized adaptation of Werner Hergoz's 'Stroszek') Screenplays (including an adaptation of Mark Vonnegut's The Eden Express') and Musicals (including The Jonathan Richman Musical) . He is also the Author of 'Fool The World', the definitive Oral History of the band the Pixies (St. Martins Press USA/Virgin Books U.K.) and "In Heaven Everything Is Fine- The Lost History of Peter Ivers and New Wave Theater."
