The Outlaw

By Jón GnarrTranslated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith The dark final volume of the former Rekyjavík mayor's childhood memoir-trilogy delves into the brutal, relentless despair of his late teens. Publication Date: March 14, 2017 Paperback: 9781941920527eBook: 9781941920534 Description In The Outlaw, the third and final volume in his acclaimed trilogy, former Reykjavík mayor and comedian Jón Gnarr returns to face the dark teenage years with his signature humor and candor. Raging with music, poetry, life, loneliness, and questions of right and wrong, Jón, a fourteen-year-old punk rock misfit, is sent to boarding school in the Westfjords region of Iceland. There he decides Crass is the only worthy punk band, discovers an unrequited interest in girls, and chooses drugs and self-harm to cope with mental anguish and intense thoughts of alienation and despair. Two years later he returns to Reykjavík, no longer a naïve adolescent, and recounts the restless years spent drifting through a li