How soon is never?

This is the autobiographical story of a New York based ex-heroin-addicted, alcoholic, chain-smoking rock critic, who suffers from the fact, that he is heading towards retirement age (30). In a long retrospective he explains how the music of The Smiths played an important part in his coming of age and his whole life ever since. Finally he and his smith-loving soul-mate, a girl, he fell in love with hopelessly try to convince the band to reunite.

I loved to read this novel not only because I feel the pain of being dangerously close to my own 30s, but also I am a big fan of The Smiths and 80s post-punk and new wave myself and there are plenty of references to bands and songs from this time and genre in the book.