Things the Grandchildren Should Know
Everett, Mark Oliver
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
A heartbreaking, heartwarming, and oddlywhimsical memoir from acclaimed indie rocker Mark Oliver Everett of EelsGrowing up in Virginia, Mark Oliver Everett had an eccentric upbringing: left to roam unsupervised with his sister, Liz, while his father, the ground-breaking physicist Hugh Everett, remained distant and obsessed by parallel universes of his own creation. In a short period of time, the author lost his sister to suicide, father to heart failure, and his mother to cancer; but these tragedies became the impetus for his acclaimed music. Everett's memoir is a rich and poignant story of love, death, coming of age, and creative vision.
AUTHOR BIO
MARK OLIVER EVERETT is the lead singer, guitarist, and keyboardist of Eels. Rolling Stone magazine called him "the Kurt Vonnegut of rock."
BOOK REVIEWS
"One of the best books ever written by a contemporary artist."--Pete Townshend "It is, like the music of Eels, intellectual, wry and unflinching as it conveys complex emotions with simple, graceful language."--Los Angeles Times "Everett captures the drama of a suburban Virginia family bedeviled by illness, early death, and madness, and illustrates how such adversities shaped his striking music gifts--and now this pitch-perfect memoir."--Elle
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0312429177
ISBN(13-digit): 9780312429171
Dewey Decimal: 781.66092
Library of Congress: 2009017442
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 245
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