You Must Go and Win - Softcover

Simone, Alina

 
9780865479159: You Must Go and Win
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0865479151 ISBN 13: 9780865479159
Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL, 2011

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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, Pop Candy), Simone is poised to win over readers of David Rakoff and Sarah Vowell with her irresistibly funny and charming literary debut.

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Verlag
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0865479151
ISBN 13 
9780865479159
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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