To throw away unopened /
By: Albertine, Viv
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Publisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2019Description: 292 p. : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0571326226; 9780571326228:; 9780571326228.Subject(s): Albertine, Viv, 1954- | Slits (Musical group) | Women rock musicians -- Great Britain -- Biography | Punk rock musicians -- Great Britain -- Biography | Rock musicians -- Great Britain -- BiographyDDC classification: 782.42166092 ALB Awards: Shortlisted for Costa Biography award 2018.Summary: Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to 'Clothes, Music, Boys', Viv Albertine has reinvented the genre with her unflinching honesty. 'To Throw Away Unopened' is a fearless dissection of one woman's obsession with the truth - the truth about family, power, and her identity as a rebel and outsider. It is a gaping wound of a book, both an exercise in blood-letting and psychological archaeology, excavating what lies beneath: the fear, the loneliness, the anger. It is a brutal expose of human dysfunctionality, the impossibility of true intimacy, and the damage wrought upon us by secrets and revelations, siblings and parents.
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Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to 'Clothes, Music, Boys', Viv Albertine has reinvented the genre with her unflinching honesty. 'To Throw Away Unopened' is a fearless dissection of one woman's obsession with the truth - the truth about family, power, and her identity as a rebel and outsider. It is a gaping wound of a book, both an exercise in blood-letting and psychological archaeology, excavating what lies beneath: the fear, the loneliness, the anger. It is a brutal expose of human dysfunctionality, the impossibility of true intimacy, and the damage wrought upon us by secrets and revelations, siblings and parents.
Shortlisted for Costa Biography award 2018.