Say Goodbye
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2019
245 pages
978-1-78954-124-3 (ISBN)
Description
Laurie Moss seemed to come out of nowhere, but behind those songs, behind that powerful voice, lies a history.
Say Goodbye takes you from her Texas roots to her first recording contract, from her struggling days in LA to her final tour - and beyond. It's also the story of her relationship with the legendary singer and songwriter Skip Shaw, whose passion for self-destruction illuminated her career like a bonfire.
The battlefield for Say Goodbye may be the music industry, but its themes are universal: success and failure, love and loss, obsession and forgiveness.
Say Goodbye takes you from her Texas roots to her first recording contract, from her struggling days in LA to her final tour - and beyond. It's also the story of her relationship with the legendary singer and songwriter Skip Shaw, whose passion for self-destruction illuminated her career like a bonfire.
The battlefield for Say Goodbye may be the music industry, but its themes are universal: success and failure, love and loss, obsession and forgiveness.
Reviews / Votes
This uncanny novel purports to chronicle the rise to almost-stardom of a singer-songwriter named Laurie Moss... The details are note-perfect: the wounded titles of her songs; the ancient musky odor of the garage where her band plays together for the first time; the tender admissions of the narrator, a rock critic who is 'at least two-thirds in love' with his subject. The completeness of the world Shiner creates brings Laurie to life, and lends a sense of fatedness to her panicked walk toward fame' * New Yorker * Say Goodbye is a dream of a book, perfectly imagined, perfectly imparted Honest, unpretentious and heartfelt, this novel remains a haunting refrain * Publishers Weekly * Shiner has written a fine novel about rock 'n' roll by believing more in musicians' human nature than in their mythologies * New York Times Book Review * Lewis Shiner has written the Citizen Kane of rock and roll novels, a human and moving piece of workMore details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78954-124-3 (9781789541243)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Born in Texas, Lewis Shiner is a musician, rock music journalist and award-winning author, writing across genres. He has published six short stories collections and eight novels, including Glimpses, winner of the World Fantasy Best Novel Award.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- Praise for Say Goodbye
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- The City
- Signs and portents
- The Silk and Steel
- Miracle on San Vicente
- Over the hills and far away
- Folkies
- The session
- The Band
- Whittier
- Jamming
- Summer
- Kitchenette
- Eye contact
- Angels
- Red dress
- The Tape
- Brave new world
- Texas
- Feliz Navidad
- Class reunion
- Auld acquaintance
- First contact
- One to go
- Partners
- Game plans
- Don't make promises
- Get ready
- Sunday morning
- Aubade
- Panic
- Of the Same Name (1)
- Tracks
- The set
- Double lead
- Gallery
- A day at the beach
- The ringer
- Temp
- Nerves
- Sound check
- Opening night
- Mark Ardrey
- The last days of Summer
- A hypothetical question
- Of the Same Name (2)
- Mystery train
- The Tour
- The first time
- General Records
- Patrice
- Celebrity bowling
- Struggling
- Shoot
- Last week
- L'Envoi
- The road
- Blue
- The fishbowl
- Phone call from Olympia
- The visitors
- Nobody's angel
- Fragile enterprise
- Dining car
- Bloomington
- Red dots
- The frying pan
- Green, rocky road
- Triage
- Epiphany
- Notices
- I Shall Be Released
- The Bottom Line
- Down the river
- Two Bad Mice
- The big C
- Home
- The big time
- Say goodbye
- Ashes
- Into the breach
- Neither Are We
- www.lauriemoss.com
- The last time
- Loose ends
- Free
- The Rest
- Mitch Gaines
- Mark Ardrey
- Jim Pearson
- Catherine Connor
- Summer Walsh
- Gabriel Wong
- Corky Moss
- Laurie Moss
- This reporter
- "Fernando"
- Author's Note
- By Lewis Shiner
- About the Author
- An Invitation from the Publisher
