American Spirit - Rilegato

Kennedy, Dan

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ISBN 10: 0544032047 ISBN 13: 9780544032040

Casa editrice: Little A / New Harvest, 2013

Riassunto

When Matthew, a fortysomething media executive, finds his Manhattan job, health, and Connecticut marriage crumbling, he goes native: Drinks in his car. Gives drug dealing a shot. Looks for direction in easy-listening rock lyrics, takes a free crafting class at the community center, and gets in a fistfight with a meditation instructor. He also tries jogging.
 
Soon he’s on a stumbling, sideways vision quest that takes him from strip malls to national parks to a Bali medical clinic, from an unlikely romance with a Hollywood agent specializing in hot young vampire roles to extreme RVing with a disgraced Wall Street trader.
 
In this heroic, hilarious debut novel, Dan Kennedy, a mainstay of the storytelling phenomenon The Moth, gives us an Everyman who takes us to the dark valleys and neon-lit edges of contemporary American life.

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Recensione:

For Rock On!"A very funny memoir about [Kennedy's] days as a marketing executive in the currently flailing music business."--GQ  "Imagine a love child born of "The Office" and High Fidelity. With Knocked Up as the slacker godfather. That captures Dan Kennedy's memoir Rock On: An Office Power Ballad, his amazingly funny yet perceptive look at rock music and big corporations in crisis."—USA Today  "[Rock On] is not just laugh-out-loud funny; it‚Äôs snort-audibly-on-the-subway funny. . . . [Kennedy] spins his misgivings into hilarious gold, and in the process illustrates how to use your disillusion."—Time Out New York  "Rock On is a succession of gently mordant vignettes, with hilariously spot-on asides about media image-making, music-biz hierarchies and sensitive singer-songwriters. . . . Like Walter Mitty in reverse, Kennedy constantly retreats from an absurd corporate environment—equal parts tyranny, vanity and fecklessness—into neurotic internal-reality checks even funnier than the folly all around him."—The New York Times Book Review  "Fast-moving and darkly funny, Rock On should be a chart topper."—People, four star review 

L'autore:

Dan Kennedy is the author of the national best seller Rock On: An Office Power Ballad and the widely acclaimed Loser Goes First, as well as a regular contributor to McSweeney's, and host of The Moth storytelling podcast and Moth StorySLAM in New York.

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• Editore: Little A / New Harvest
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0544032047
• ISBN 13: 9780544032040
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 344