Book of the day > Heaven by Dennis McGrath
Come to Arcana on Sunday, 4-6 when we're having a book signing for 2 great books! Heaven by Dennis McGrath and They Should Never Touch the Ground by Deanna Templeton. Today we'll have a look at Dennis' book: Book of the day > Heaven by Dennis McGrath. Seems Books. Dennis McGrath’s debut book Heaven illustrates an incredible journey of a lost soul. In the mid 90’s McGrath quit school and began taking skateboard pictures full time. Professional skateboarder Lennie Kirk started his career in the early ‘90s, at the ripe young age of 16. He was a wild child, fearless and invincible. Nothing seemed out of his reach. He was only 18 when he was run over by a truck. Board broken but otherwise unharmed, he walks away and ‘found God’. After being ‘saved’ his wild antics were no different, if anything crazier. His passion was manic and dangerous, and often got him into trouble. Being ‘saved’ wasn’t enough to save him in the end. Lennie is currently serving 13 years in jail. It’s his second sentence. With an intense collection of letters, photographs and ephemera, McGrath takes us on a visual journey through Lennie’s life, from the wild young kid from North Carolina who had made the exodus to California like many others to skate to the man he is now. 'What he did isn't right, but by happenstance I was just there and able to document his life since he was 16 years old. I remember in 1997 I was in New York with a box of prints with a bunch of photos of Lennie and I showed them to Larry Clark and he said, pointing to Lennie, "Follow this kid around, every time you see him take a photo of him.' That was the weird seed planted almost 20 years ago that started this book. '"