All Tomorrow's Parties: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (807 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802124836 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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But Spillman isn’t angling for sympathy. Praise for All Tomorrow's PartiesWith wry humor and wonder, Spillman beautifully captures the deadpan hedonism of the East Berliners and the city’s sense of infinite possibility, which, to his frustration, never quite imbues him with his own artistic compulsion. All Tomorrow's Parties is such a memoir. It quivers with the type of honesty it takes to admit your deepest, most damning secrets. Spillman brilliantlythrillinglycaptures the velocity and the changing sounds of youth as it simultaneously hurls away from, and toward, home. A richly detailed and always engaging memoir on artistic discovery.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)If you’ve ever been young, in love, and desperate to live an authentic life, this book is for you: a ravishing memoir about a young man’s quest for art, meaning, and a place to call home.” Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot Se
Susan Shapiro said brilliant, fascinating debut memoir. Rob Spillman's debut memoir is an international thriller set in Berlin, a revealing family drama and a poignant love story all rolled into one fast, fascinating read. I couldn't put it down.. An Electric, Bold & Suspenseful Ride If you have ever been in love, asked what does life mean, or searched for your identity you'll enjoy Rob Spillman's romp of a memoir where he reveals the evolution of his deep artistic sensibilities. Until age eleven he lives in Berlin. At the age of four his parents split up. He becomes a bi-continent child. Berlin was his home-base with a father who chose to live an artist's life as a professional pianist. Spillman observed . "A captivating story" Bookreporter To literary cognoscenti, Rob Spillman is well-known as the co-founder and editor of Tin House magazine and the husband of writer Elissa Schappell. In his revealing and energetic memoir, ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES, Spillman looks back from the perspective of middle age on the first, faltering steps he took along the road to realizing his artistic ambitions. This portrait of the artist as a young man is a captivating story of both p
But Spillman soon discovered he was chasing the one thing that had always eluded him: a place, or person, to call home. Rob Spillmanthe award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of the legendary Tin House magazinehas devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. Born in Germany to two driven musicians, his childhood was spent among the West Berlin cognoscenti, in a city two hundred miles behind the Iron Curtain. There, the Berlin Wall stood as a stark reminder of the split between East and West, between suppressed dreams and freedom of expression.After an unsettled youth moving between divorced parents in disparate cities, Spillman would eventually find his way into the literary world of New York Ci