You Must Go and Win
- 作者:Alina,Simone
- 出版社:Baker & Taylor Books
- 出版日期:2011-06-07
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:0865479151
- ISBN13:9780865479159
- 裝訂:平裝 / 14 x 21 x 1.9 cm / 普通級
In the wickedly bittersweet and hilarious You Must Go and Win, the Ukrainian-born musician Alina Simone traces her bizarre journey through the indie rock world, from disastrous
Craigslist auditions with sketchy producers to catching fleas in a Williamsburg sublet. But Simone offers more than down-and-out tales of her time as a struggling musician: she has a rapier
wit, slashing and burning her way through the absurdities of life, while offering surprising and poignant insights into the burdens of family expectations and the nature of ambition, the
temptations of religion and the lure of a mythical Russian home. Wavering between embracing and fleeing her outsized and nebulous dreams of stardom, Simone confronts her Russian past when
she falls in love with the music of Yanka Dyagileva, a Soviet singer who tragically died young; hits the road with her childhood friend who is dead set on becoming an icon”; and battles
male strippers in Siberia.
Hailed as the perfect storm of creative talent” (USA Today), Simone is poised to win over readers of David Rakoff and Sarah Vowell with her irresistibly funny and charming literary
debut.