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GIRL IN A BAND - KIM GORDON KARTONIERT (TB)

?Unconventional. . . . Not a garden-variety rock memoir . . . [but] a strange and lovely book
about a woman finding and losing herself onstage and off and crafting a complicated creative
life when none of the molds quite fit.?? Los Angeles Times Book Review ?Engaging and
surprisingly intimate.?? Vanity Fair ?More than a memoir  though one of the most riveting music
biographies ever penned.??Examiner.com For many  Kim Gordon  vocalist  bassist  and founding
member of Sonic Youth?one of the most influential and successful bands to emerge from the
post-punk New York scene?has always represented the epitome of cool. And almost as celebrated
as the band's defiantly dissonant sound was the marriage between Gordon and her then husband 
Thurston Moore. When it was announced that the couple was splitting after twenty-seven years of
marriage  fans were devastated. In Girl in a Band   this famously reserved superstar speaks
candidly about her past and the future. From her childhood in the sunbaked suburbs of Southern
California  growing up with a mentally ill sibling  to New York's downtown art and music scene
in the eighties and nineties and the birth of a band that would pave the way for acts like
Nirvana  as well as help inspire the Riot Grrl generation  here is an edgy and evocative
portrait of a life in art. Exploring the artists  musicians  and writers who influenced her 
and the relationship that defined her life for so long  Girl in a Band is filled with the
sights and sounds of a pre-Internet world and is a deeply personal portrait of a woman who has
become an icon.

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