Chris Rush The Light Years A Memoir

LIGHT YEARS Lambda Literary Award Finalist - A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Named a best book of 2019 by Parade The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history 'This stunningly beautiful, original memoir is driven by a search for the divine, a quest that leads Rush into some dangerous places . . . The Light Years is funny, harrowing, and deeply tender.' --Kate Tuttle, The L.A. Times 'Rush is a fantastically vivid writer, whether hes remembering a New Jersey of meatballs and Windex and hairspray or the dappled, dangerous beauty of Northern California, where rock stars lurked like lemurs in the trees. Read if you loved... Just Kids by Patti Smith.' --Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly 'As mythic and wild with love, possibility, and danger as the decades it spans, youll read The Light Years with your breath held. Brutal, buoyant and wise to the tender terror of growing up, Chris Rush has written a timeless memoir of boyhood in the American wilderness.' --Emma Cline, author of The Girls Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving businessman dad ran an unspoken tension that, amid the upheaval of the late 1960s, was destined to fracture their precarious facade. His older sister Donna introduces him to the charismatic Valentine, who places a tab of acid on twelve-year-old Rushs tongue, proclaiming: 'This is sacrament. You are one of us now.' After an unceremonious ejection from an experimental art school, Rush heads to Tucson to make a major drug purchase and, still barely a teenager, disappears into the nascent American counterculture. Stitching together a ragged assemblage of lowlifes, prophets, and fellow wanderers, he seeks kinship in the communes of the west. His adolescence is spent looking for knowledge, for the divine, for home. Given what [...] Autor: CHRIS RUSH Wydawnictwo: Macmillan Rok wydania: 2019 Okładka: twarda Wymiary: 16.5 x 23.8 x 3.8 cm Język: Angielski ISBN: 9780374294410