Another Planet (eBook)

A Teenager in Suburbia

Tracey Thorn (Autor)

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2019 | Main
175 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
9781786892577 (ISBN)

Infos

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE'Tender, wise and funny' Sunday Express'Beautifully observed, deadly funny' Max PorterBefore becoming an acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living.Returning to the scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters, the pub car parks and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children and the children who wanted none of it. With great wit and insight, Thorn reconsiders the Green Belt post-war dream so many artists have mocked, and yet so many artists have come from.

Autor

Tracey Thorn is a singer-songwriter and writer, best known for her seventeen years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She grew up as the youngest of three children in Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where she learned the piano, enjoyed underaged drinking, and started her first band while still at school. Since then, she has released four solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles and two books, including the Sunday Times bestselling memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen, and currently writes a column for the New Statesman. She lives in London, with her husband Ben Watt and their three children. @tracey_thorn | traceythorn.com

Rezensionen

PRAISE FOR TRACEY THORN: Beautifully written, dryly funny and searingly honest

I loved it. Thorn is the rarest of things: a singer whose phrasing is as good on the page as it is through a microphone

Another Planet is about being a teenager in suburbia in the 1970s, and revisiting one's own youth from middle age. It touches on class, culture, music, plum jam and parenting teens. It's wonderful. You'll read it in one go

Another Planet is a poignant, rueful, tender portrait of a world so little written about, but which so many of us will recognise. I devoured it. Thorn is a brilliant writer, and a brilliantly insightful chronicler of a certain type of English experience

The Alan Bennett of pop memoirists. I loved her book so much I wanted to form a band, too. Preferably with Thorn

I devoured Another Planet. Thorn's intimate reflections on teenage angst, motherhood, panic attacks, family and music are so moving and insightful, and written with wit and sensitivity

An intensely readable account of thirty years of being in love with music . . . Warm, assertive, sweetly funny, but most of all honest

Tracey Thorn turns the tables on her teenage boredom and chips a jewel out of doing stuff - and not doing stuff -in suburbia. A meditation on mooching and moping, escaping and finding, mums and dads, love and ageing, which is reflective, warm and deeply touching

The Everything But The Girl frontwoman and former Marine Girl seizes our attention because she never asks for it, and in that her authorial voice is like her singing voice, soft and low, magnetic

I adored this. Wise, tender, beautifully observed, deadly funny. A green belt memoir classic

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.2.2019
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Schlagworte: Alan Bennett • Art and Music • Bedsit Disco Queen • Caitlin Moran • Childhood • Coming-of-age • Diary • Everything but the Girl • Marine Girls • Memoir • Naked at the Albert Hall • Nina Stibbe • Olivia Laing • Patti Smith • rebecca solnit • Record • Suburbia • Viv Albertine
• ISBN-13: 9781786892577 / 9781786892577