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Moby "Porcelain: A Memoir" SIGNED/Autographed Hardcover 1st Edition

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Condition
Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Type
Memoirs
Special Attributes
Signed, 1st Edition
Subject
Biography & Autobiography, MUSIC
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9781594206429

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594206422
ISBN-13
9781594206429
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217040714

Product Key Features

Book Title
Porcelain : a Memoir
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Genres & Styles / Electronic, Genres & Styles / Rock, Genres & Styles / Dance
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Moby
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
25.3 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-560594
Reviews
Salman Rushdie:  "Ten years of Moby's life, mostly in the decrepit, dangerous, much-loved New York City of the 1990s, a life comically overcrowded,  filthy, alcohol-fuelled, vegan, unbelievably noisy, full of spit and semen and some sort of Christianity; and often, suddenly, moving. The writing is terrific, enlivened by a bewildered deadpan humor that makes crazy sense of it all. His ancestor Herman Melville would, I think, be simultaneously revolted and proud."
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
782.42166092 B
Synopsis
From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor and unlikely success out of the NYC club scene of the late '80s and '90s. There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene. This was the New York of Palladium; of Mars, Limelight, and Twilo; of unchecked, drug-fueled hedonism in pumping clubs where dance music was still largely underground, popular chiefly among working-class African Americans and Latinos. And then there was Moby--not just a poor, skinny white kid from Connecticut, but a devout Christian, a vegan, and a teetotaler. He would learn what it was to be spat on, to live on almost nothing. But it was perhaps the last good time for an artist to live on nothing in New York City: the age of AIDS and crack but also of a defiantly festive cultural underworld. Not without drama, he found his way. But success was not uncomplicated; it led to wretched, if in hindsight sometimes hilarious, excess and proved all too fleeting. And so by the end of the decade, Moby contemplated an end in his career and elsewhere in his life, and put that emotion into what he assumed would be his swan song, his good-bye to all that, the album that would in fact be the beginning of an astonishing new phase: the multimillion-selling Play . At once bighearted and remorseless in its excavation of a lost world, Porcelain is both a chronicle of a city and a time and a deeply intimate exploration of finding one's place during the most gloriously anxious period in life, when you're on your own, betting on yourself, but have no idea how the story ends, and so you live with the honest dread that you're one false step from being thrown out on your face. Moby's voice resonates with honesty, wit, and, above all, an unshakable passion for his music that steered him through some very rough seas. Porcelain is about making it, losing it, loving it, and hating it. It's about finding your people, your place, thinking you've lost them both, and then, somehow, when you think it's over, from a place of well-earned despair, creating a masterpiece. As a portrait of the young artist, Porcelain is a masterpiece in its own right, fit for the short shelf of musicians' memoirs that capture not just a scene but an age, and something timeless about the human condition. Push play.
LC Classification Number
ML420.M54487A3 2016

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