Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir

Zusatztext Fans of Sleater Kinney and Brownstein the musician are in for a real treat Informationen zum Autor Carrie Brownstein is a musician! writer and actor who first became widely known as the guitarist and vocalist of the band Sleater-Kinney and later as a creator! writer and co-star of the Emmy-nominated! Peabody Award winning television show Portlandia . Brownstein's writing has appeared in The New York Times ! The Believer ! Slate! and numerous anthologies on music and culture. She lives in Portland! Oregon and Los Angeles. Klappentext 'Carrie tells her story with mesmerizing, often hilarious, honesty, reminding us that life is just a million bad outfits, nervous phone calls, sleepless nights, and clumsy kisses, and yet all of this adds up to something tremendous - staggering, actually. I wept' Miranda July 'So many times while reading this book I screamed "Yes!" inside. You can feel Carrie's visceral guitar-swirling energy on every page. An amazing writer' Kim Gordon 'She can play, but man, can Carrie Brownstein write . . . Her blazing memoir is lit by the same flair for adventure, fearless inquiry, and honesty that mark her gritty licks and trenchant vocals' Elle 'Heartfelt and disarmingly honest, Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl is far from a regular tale of rock'n'roll dissolution. It is, instead, a tale of a young woman with a complex interior life struggling to grow up and find her identity . . . It is the story of her struggle to belong' Independent on Sunday '[A] glorious, grungy paean to losing yourself in music' Sarra Manning, Red From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life-and finding yourself-in music. Zusammenfassung From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life-and finding yourself-in music....

Product details

• Authors: Carrie Brownstein, Brownstein Carrie
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.11.2016
• EAN: 9780349007953
• ISBN: 978-0-349-00795-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Virago Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Rock, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Pop Music, Popular Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs