"Bono artist activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 has written a memoir:
honest and irreverent intimate and profound Surrender is the story of the remarkable life
he's lived the challenges he's faced and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained
him. "When I started to write this book I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously
only sketched in songs. The people places and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word
freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up
(musically speaking) it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my
thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band
in my marriage in my faith in my life as an activist. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim's
lack of progress... with a fair amount of fun along the way." - Bono. As one of the music
world's most iconic artists and the cofounder of the organizations ONE and (RED) Bono's career
has been written about extensively. But in Surrender it's Bono who picks up the pen writing
for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has shared it with. In his unique
voice Bono takes us from his early days growing up in Dublin including the sudden loss of his
mother when he was fourteen to U2's unlikely journey to become one of the world's most
influential rock bands to his more than twenty years of activism dedicated to the fight
against AIDS and extreme poverty. Writing with candor self-reflection and humor Bono opens
the aperture on his life and the family friends and faith that have sustained challenged
and shaped him. Surrender's subtitle 40 Songs One Story is a nod to the book's forty
chapters which are each named after a U2 song. Bono has also created forty original drawings
for Surrender which will appear throughout the book."--
