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Original Essays | October 18, 2009

Victoria Hislop: IMG From Leprosy to Lorca — Strange Inspiration

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My first novel, The Island, was inspired by a chance visit to a tiny island leper colony off the coast of Greece on our summer holiday. It was a... Continue »
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Transformer :the Lou Reed story

by Victor Bockris

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [430]-437) and index.
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sean.scott, February 11, 2007 (view all comments by sean.scott)
Lou Reed has used his songwriting and sociopathic P.R. persona to tell the world more than anyone could have wanted to know about a middle-class Jewish kid from Long Island who just happened to revolutionize rock'n'roll. So why does the world need another soon-to-be remaindered rock-bio?

Two reasons. One: Reed changed his personalities more often than his underwear, contradicting himself and opening as many mysteries as he solved. Two: Victor Bockris has done a damn fine job of playing Boswell to Reed's drugged-out bisexual Dr. Johnson. Collating endless reviews, interviews, and other views of Reed's life and work, Bockris has used his considerable literary skill to form a coherent, insightful narrative from Reed's often incoherent chaos of a life.

Bockris has an authorial voice that's lively yet restrained; his writing takes a back seat to the biography, but his brisk style and intelligence are worthy of Reed, America's most literary rock star. Rock journalism needs a Victor Bockris almost as much as rock music needs a Lou Reed.
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ISBN:
9780684803661
Author:
Bockris, Victor
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Rock musicians
Subject:
Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Subject:
General Biography
Copyright:
1994
Series Volume:
9934.
Publication Date:
19950801
Binding:
HC
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
448
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