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Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre
An October 2022 IndieNext pick "[An] engaging and beautifully
narrated quest for personal fulfillment and musical
recognition...This is a fast-paced tale in which music and love
always take center stage...A truly gifted musician, Price writes
about her journey with refreshing candor."-Kirkus, starred review
"Brutally honest...a vivid and poignant memoir."-The Guardian
Country music star Margo Price shares the story of her struggle to
make it in an industry that preys on its ingenues while trying to
move on from devastating personal tragedies. When Margo Price was
nineteen years old, she dropped out of college and moved to
Nashville to become a musician. She busked on the street, played
open mics, and even threw out her TV so that she would do nothing
but write songs. She met Jeremy Ivey, a fellow musician who would
become her closest collaborator and her husband. But after working
on their craft for more than a decade, Price and Ivey had no label,
no band, and plenty of heartache. Maybe We'll Make It is a memoir
of loss, motherhood, and the search for artistic freedom in the
midst of the agony experienced by so many aspiring musicians: bad
gigs and long tours, rejection and sexual harassment, too much
drinking and barely enough money to live on. Price, though, refused
to break, and turned her lowest moments into the classic country
songs that eventually comprised the debut album that launched her
career. In the authentic voice hailed by Pitchfork for tackling
"Steinbeck-sized issues with no-bullshit humility," Price shares
the stories that became songs, and the small acts of love and
camaraderie it takes to survive in a music industry that is often
unkind to women. Now a Grammy-nominated "Best New Artist," Price
tells a love story of music, collaboration, and the struggle to
build a career while trying to maintain her singular voice and
style.
Afterword by Alzheimer's Research UK. 'Shobna Gulati is the
Northern heroine of a nation' - Lemn Sissay 'Lucid and probing' -
Guardian 'Wonderful and emotional, a masterpiece of resilience.' -
Emma Kennedy Remember Me? is a memoir about caring for a parent
with dementia and the memories that resurface in the process. In
her first book, Shobna Gulati sets out to reclaim her mother's past
after her death, and in turn, discovers a huge amount about herself
and their relationship. Remember Me? captures the powerful emotions
that these memories hold to both Shobna and her mother; secrets
they had collectively buried and also the concealment of her
mother's condition. What ensues is a story of cultural
assimilation, identity and familial shame. 'A raw, honest, moving
and wry account of the complexity of a mother daughter relationship
convoluted by the torment of dementia.' - Sanjeev Bhaskar 'Gulati's
book not only describes the complexities of caring (we must not
forget its joys, she says, alongside its difficulties) and her
mother's dementia, it is also an exploration of identity.' -
Guardian 'You'll find yourself not wanting to leave her trusted
embrace.' - Desiree Burch 'Beautifully written. Heartfelt.' - Kate
Robbins 'I laughed, I cried ... a relationship like no other.' -
Ferne Mccann
The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor.
Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century's most famous film star. Including unseen photographs and unread private reflections, this authorised biography is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legend and her legacy.
Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive fame at the age of twelve in National Velvet to becoming the first actor to negotiate a million-dollar salary for a film, from her eight marriages and enduring love affair with Richard Burton to her lifelong battle with addiction and her courageous efforts as an AIDS activist.
Using Elizabeth's unpublished letters, diary entries and off-the-record interview transcripts as well as interviews with 250 of her closest friends and family, Kate Andersen Brower tells the full, unvarnished story of the classic Hollywood star who continues to captivate audiences the world over.
Music made in Akron symbolized an attitude more so than a singular sound. Crafted by kids hell-bent on not following their parents into the rubber plants, the music was an intentional antithesis of Top 40 radio. Call it punk or call it new wave, but in a short few years, major labels signed Chrissie Hynde, Devo, the Waitresses, Tin Huey, the Bizarros, the Rubber City Rebels and Rachel Sweet. They had their own bars, the Crypt and the Bank. They had their own label, Clone Records. They even had their own recording space, Bushflow Studios. London's Stiff Records released an Akron compilation album, and suddenly there were "Akron Nights" in London clubs and CBGB was waiving covers for people with Akron IDs. Author Calvin Rydbom of the "Akron Sound" Museum remembers that short time when the Rubber City was the place.
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