Black Sabbath's Master of Reality has maintained remarkable historical status over several generations; it's a touchstone for the directionless, and common coin for young men and women who've felt excluded from the broader cultural economy.

John Darnielle hears it through the ears of Roger Painter, a young adult locked in a southern California adolescent psychiatric center in 1985; deprived of his Walkman and hungry for comfort, he explains Black Sabbath as one might describe air to a fish, or love to an android, hoping to convince his captors to give him back his tapes.

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Author: John Darnielle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 112pp
Size: 5 x 6.5
Notes: paperback
Release Date: April 15, 2008
ISBN: 978-0826428998