Sting - Memoirs: Escape Artist - Rilegato

Sting

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ISBN 10: 0743231848 ISBN 13: 9780743231848

Casa editrice: Fireside, 2003

Riassunto

"Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book, but upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty,I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as stimulating and intriguing to me as any songwriting I had ever done. And so 'Broken Music' began to take shape. It is a book about the early part of my life, from childhood through adolescence, right up to the eve of my success with the Police. It is a story very few people know. I had no interest in writing a traditional autobiographical recitation of everything that's ever happened to me. Instead I was drawn to exploring specific moments, certain people and relationships, and particular events which still resonate powerfully for me as I try to understand the child I was, and the man I became." STING

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Recensione:

'In no way a typical rock-star biography...His life unfolds like a wandering melody seeking to break free of the bleak gravity of his parents' lives...BROKEN MUSIC is Sting's bloodletting and peacemaking with the past...This remarkably candid memoir is meticulously composed and exquisitely detailed. Sting's gift for prose and reverence for language, nearly the equal of his musical gifts, shine on every page. Even when BROKEN MUSIC addresses the quixotic life of an aspiring rock & roller, it reads like literature from a more rarified time when adults didn't condescend to the vulgarities of pop culture'. Parke Puterbaugh, ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE.
‘Sting's excellent book is a well written, intelligent and compelling autobiography...an inspiration...terrific’ Val Hennessey, Daily Mail
A well-written memoir'
The Times 7/12
'Uniquely for such a book, BROKEN MUSIC feels like a form of personal catharsis...raw and candid...Having read it, I feel inclined to go back to his music to see if there was something I'd missed...fascinating and thoughtful' Marcus Berkmann, SPECTATOR
'laced with humour and some touching writing' HOT STARS
'A very personal and touching memoir' ECONOMIST
'Candid. . . he engages one's attention and interest throughout' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
‘A former English teacher as well as a singer-songwriter, Sting writes with far more verve than your average reminiscing rock musician and takes care to jazz up the linear structure’
It’s an honest account from which he emerges as a likeable and rather ordinary young man...you don’t need to know a lot about his music to find it enjoyable’
Sunday Times 19/09
‘Lucid and well-written...His description of growing up in the fifties and sixties has a powerful sense of time and place, and his recollection of his parents’ relationship is moving and eloquent.’
Mail on Sunday 17/10

L'autore:

Sting is an award-winning singer, songwriter and human rights activist.

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• Editore: Fireside
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743231848
• ISBN 13: 9780743231848
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304