Another Planet - A Teenager in Suburbia

Informationen zum Autor Tracey Thorn is a singer-songwriter and writer, best known for her seventeen years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She was born and grew up as the youngest of three children in Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where she learned the piano, enjoyed underaged drinking, and started her first band while still at school. Since then, she has released four solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles and two books, including the Sunday Times bestselling memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen , and currently writes a column for the New Statesman . She lives in London, with her husband Ben Watt and their three children. @tracey_thorn | traceythorn.com Klappentext Everything But The Girl singer-songwriter and "Bedsit Disco Queen" author Tracey Thorn blends memoir and psychogeography in these recollections of a 1970s adolescence in a Green Belt commuter town. John Niven praises "Another Planet" by describing Thorn as 'a singer whose phrasing is as good on the page as it is through a microphone.' Zusammenfassung The Sunday Times top ten bestseller. A wise and witty exploration of suburbia from music icon Tracey Thorn; singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Bedsit Disco Queen Inhaltsverzeichnis traceythorn.com

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A beautiful writer . . . Exceptional . . . Made me catch my breath . . . Her language is straightforward, chatty, easy-to-read. Musical. Though Thorn tells us sharp truths, we gobble them up because she delivers them in such a deceptively pretty, poignant way Miranda Sawyer Financial Times

Product details

• Authors: Tracey Thorn, Thorn Tracey
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781786892584
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-258-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Punk, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Punk, New Wave & Indie, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Autobiography: writers, Biography: arts and entertainment, Music: styles and genres