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Rat Girl: A Memoir [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Kristin Hersh (Autor)
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Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2010
In 1985, Kristin Hersh was just beginning to find her place in the world. After beginning her music career at the age of fourteen, the precocious child of unconventional hippies was enrolled in college while her band, Throwing Muses, was getting off the ground, amid buzzing rumors of a major label deal.

Then, everything changed. Her emotional troubles were diagnosed as bipolar disorder, and - just after the band was signed - Hersh was processing news of a very different sort: she was pregnant. Suddenly, she found herself wondering whether antidepressants could be mixed with prenatal vitamins, how to balance a guitar on her swollen stomach, and whether a rock band could tour with an infant.

Written in beautifully evocative prose, and filled with unforgettable characters, Rat Girl is the story of one pivotal year in Hersh's extraordinary life, a year that taught her strength and forced her to grow up much faster than she'd planned.

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  • Taschenbuch: 336 Seiten
  • Verlag: Penguin (Non-Classics); Auflage: Reprint (31. August 2010)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0143117394
  • ISBN-13: 978-0143117391
  • Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: 18 - 17 Jahre
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,3 x 14,1 x 1,8 cm
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  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 105.691 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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"Rat Girl is the story of a wide-eyed soul coming to maturity in the ridiculous cacophony of modern life. Although it is supposedly about what we call, for lack of a better term, 'manic depression,' it has nearly no interest in such grim diagnostic thinking. It is instead awestruck - by music, feeling, perception, wild animals, mystery, dreams, 'the gorgeous and terrible things that live in your house.' It is an original beauty."
-Mary Gaitskill, author of Veronica and Don't Cry

"Funny, freaky, fidgety, Hersh's memoir is the book a fan didn't dare hope for: a beacon in a dark field, illuminating the mysterious and the mundane. Beautifully, honestly, written and as close as you will ever get to being in a Throwing Muses song."
-Wesley Stace, author of Misfortune and By George

"Ultra-vivid writing and intense honesty is what you'd expect from Kristin Hersh, one of America's finest songwriters. But Rat Girl is also a startlingly funny and touching memoir of her mid-Eighties moment as the bi- polar, pregnant, intermittently homeless frontwoman of a rising indie-rock band. It's a gripping journey into mental chaos and out the other side."
-Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84

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Kristin Hersh has release more than twenty albums over the course of her career which have sold more than one million copies worldwide. She records solo, as well as with her bands Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen More proof that life writes the best stories 23. Januar 2013
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(Also issued in the UK as Paradoxical Undressing.)

You see, I've never been too much into prose. Instead, I've been devouring nonfiction ever since I was a little kid, and unfortunately I tend to apply this sort of reading style to anything, tearing through books like there's no tomorrow. I'll tell you that much, this can leave you more than just slightly dizzy after you're finished. (How I envy people who flip through books at a leisurely pace sometimes, like my mom.) I guess I'm a bit weird...

And maybe that's precisely why I was able to relate to this book and its author. Kristin Hersh comes across as an intelligent, introverted person with a good sense of humor who's quite capable of poignant writing. Now granted, this isn't /quite/ your average book, much like Throwing Muses aren't quite your average band. It eschews the idea of chapters but is loosely grouped into sections of the main story as based on her 1985/86 diary, separated by historic anecdotes from former family life. Select song lyrics are interspersed where they fit. Sure enough, there's a fair amount of "ah, so *that's* where that came from!" moments to be had for the fan. (It is recommended that you be equipped with In a Doghouse or similar.) I can't really say their music has become /that/ much less opaque to me though.

The unconventional structure did not impede readability for me - much like many TM song do retain a certain pop appeal. Things do get a little disjointed by the middle when her mental disorder really kicks in in the main storyline, but I feel that /that's the very point/. I mean, her head was a mess at the time.... Lesen Sie weiter... ›
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5.0 von 5 Sternen Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh Will Embrace You 1. September 2010
Von Rich Becker - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com
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Sometimes when you read a book, you curl up and embrace it. Rarely does it embrace you back. Rat Girl: A Memoir (aka Paradoxical Undressing in the U.K.), written by Kristin Hersh is one such book. A rarity.

The cover may be black, but you won't find a single stitch of black in the content. Don't ask me to assign it another. In the opening pages of her book, Hersh mentions that colors splashed across a canvas are all too quiet. The book, like her music, is vibrant. Chords have color. Her favorite color is green.

"Every time I think I'm done, I pick another song out of the chaos in the air. There songs're keeping me alive so they can be alive."

Despite following her story from one spring to the next (1985), it reads free from the trappings of time. Each part is oddly permanent, as if it exists in space, waiting to be played again.

This makes for an interesting narrative. Instead of relying on seamless transitions, Hersh ties stories together by lines of inspired lyrics and, occasionally, relevant 3- to 5-paragraph memories from her early childhood. It's also loaded with wit that will make you smile. It's as celebratory as her music. And in between some sad notes, expect to laugh out loud. Frequently.
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5.0 von 5 Sternen Throwing Muses 22. November 2010
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I had never heard of the band Throwing Muses before reading this book. Yet I was instantly intrigued by Kristin's story. The child of hippies, Kristin is a shy, yet extremely smart, teenager. She feels music with every fiber of her being. At time, the music comes to her, playing over and over in her head until she picks up guitar and writes the song. As her band is becoming popular, Kristin is diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Hersh's writing about being bipolar is extremely powerful and moving. Through her words, the reader experiences what it feels like for her during her powerful manic states. After reading this book I feel as if Kristin is a close friend, one who has shared her insights and muses with me.
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5.0 von 5 Sternen A must for Throwing Muses fans and not only 19. Dezember 2010
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I remember there was a time when i was fifteen-sixteen when music was everything to me . I took it all very seriously and i really felt that my two or three favourite rock groups said more about me than a diary would and somehow defined me . Love was a fairly unknown delicacy back then and confusion was the main element in my teenagehood . I was so dissapointed when , for example , Belly's "King" didnt sell much or when people i striked a music conversation with had no idea who Lush or Jason Falkner was ( they probably still don't ) .

I became familiar with Hersh's body of work later in life . Although often challenging and difficult , her music was so raw and honest you couldn't help but admiring her . Her recently released memoir took me back again to that time when music meant the world . Hersh was an outsider in school herself , one who made great music and was happy doing just that and nothing more . Her wandering around in deserted houses for a sleep-over , walks on a beach with a friend , college corridors and , later in the book , recording studios and especially her interactions with bandmates Narcizo , Langstone and step-sister Donelly ring so true and unspoiled . Her blurry thoughts about her writing process and songs resemble a lot to the feelings indie kids have for the music they love but find it impossible to express or pin down .

Unlike disastrous efforts like let's say Sting's " Broken Music " , this is truly how a music memoir should be . Hersh herself , now a mother of 4 and still producing special , complicated records , has long outgrown the book and like she says , this is a potrait of a girl she once was , not of who she is today as a person . Still it was so refreshing for me to travel in her little time-capsule and recall how innocent and dark it all was in that tender , vulnerable age .
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