Ebook {Epub PDF} Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh

A friend of mine once pointed out to me that famous people write autobiographies. The rest of us write novels. That has always seemed to me to be true, and singer-songwriter Kristin Hersh's astonishing "Rat Girl," the story of a year in her life taken from her diary, would seem to prove my friend's point. Kristin Hersh; Throwing Muses; video. 50FOOTWAVE; kristin hersh; throwing muses; Books. Crooked; Don’t Suck, Don’t Die; Paradoxical Undressing; Purgatory/Paradise; Rat Girl; Seeing Sideways; Toby Snax; Wyatt At The Coyote Palace; Rat Girl “Sensitive and emotionally raw it’s also wildly funny”. About Rat Girl “One of the 25 Kristin Hersh was a preternaturally bright teenager, starting college at fifteen and with her band, Throwing Muses, playing rock clubs she was too young to frequent. By the age of seventeen she was living in her car, unable to sleep for the torment of strange songs swimming around her head – the songs for.

Kristin Hersh; Throwing Muses; video. 50FOOTWAVE; kristin hersh; throwing muses; Books. Crooked; Don't Suck, Don't Die; Paradoxical Undressing; Purgatory/Paradise; Rat Girl; Seeing Sideways; Toby Snax; Rat Girl. Rat Girl "Sensitive and emotionally raw it's also wildly funny". This item: Rat Girl: A Memoir. by Kristin Hersh Paperback. $ In Stock. Ships from and sold by bltadwin.ru FREE Shipping on orders over $ Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood (American Music Series) by Kristin Hersh Hardcover. $ Kristin Hersh is that rare breed of musician who is also a fantastic writer. Though most people would know her from her solo career or her bands Throwing Muses or 50 Foot Wave, her first memoir, Rat Girl, described her life as an year-old songwriter, newly diagnosed with mental illness Read More».

But just as her band was taking off, Hersh was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Rat Girl chronicles the unraveling of a young woman's personality, culminating in a suicide attempt; and then her arduous yet inspiring recovery, her unplanned pregnancy at the age of 19, and the birth of her first son. Playful, vivid, and wonderfully warm, this is a visceral and brave memoir by a truly original performer, told in a truly original voice. Rat Girl. “Sensitive and emotionally raw it’s also wildly funny”. The New York Times Sunday Book Review. “one of the 25 Greatest Rock Memoirs of All Time”. Rolling Stone Magazine (#8) “A thoroughly engrossing work by an original voice”. Kirkus (Starred Review) Published by Penguin USA. Posted in:booksonSeptember 1, Kristin Hersh's "Rat Girl" deconstructs the notion of memoir. The book takes place during only one tumultuous year during the singer's life but it manages to cover so much: Bi-polar disorder, her band Throwing Muse's record deal and recording of their first album and the pregnancy and birth of her first child.