{"product_id":"the-good-inn-a-novel-isbn-9780062220790","title":"The Good Inn: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLoosely based on these historical events, \u003cem\u003eThe Good Inn\u003c\/em\u003e 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. It is a volatile world where war and art exist side by side. It is also the very real story of the people who made the first narrative pornographic film. The novel weaves together real historical facts to recreate this lost piece of history, as seen through the eyes of a shell-shocked soldier who finds himself the subject and star of the world’s first stag film. Through Soldier Boy’s journey we explore the power of memory, the simultaneously destructive and healing power of light, and how the early pioneers of stag films helped shape the film industry for generations to come.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eFrom legendary Pixies front man, Black Francis, in collaboration with writer Josh Frank and renowned illustrator Steven Appleby, comes \u003cem\u003eThe Good Inn\u003c\/em\u003e, a bold and visually arresting novel about art, conflict, and the origins of a certain type of cinema\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1907, the French battleship \u003cem\u003eIéna\u003c\/em\u003e was destroyed when a nitrocellulose-based weapon propellant it was carrying became unstable with age and self-ignited, killing 120 people. A year later, \u003cem\u003eLa Bonne Auberge\u003c\/em\u003e became the earliest-known pornographic film, depicting an intimate 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLoosely based on historical events, \u003cem\u003eThe Good Inn\u003c\/em\u003e follows the lone survivor of the Iéna explosion as he makes his way through the French countryside. He falls into a strange love affair with an innkeeper's daughter and, even more deeply, into a volatile counteruniverse where war and art exist side by side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut \u003cem\u003eThe Good Inn\u003c\/em\u003e is also the very real story of the people who made the world's first stag film, and Francis weaves together real historical facts to re-create this lost piece of history, as seen through the eyes of a shell-shocked soldier who finds himself that film's subject and star. Through his journey we explore the power of memory, the simultaneously destructive and restorative power of light, and how the early pioneers of pornography helped shape the film industry for generations to come.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“America’s beloved indie rock band . . . the Pixies [laid] the sonic groundwork for such alternative acts as Nirvana and Radiohead.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCNN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of America’s greatest bands ever.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBono\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Pixies . . . changed my life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThom Yorke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[The Pixies made] just about the most compelling music of the entire 80s.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Bowie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. 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