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PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-100312375298
ISBN-139780312375294
eBay Product ID (ePID)63896619
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhen We Get to Surf City : A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicComposers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Rock
Publication Year2008
IllustratorYes
GenreMusic, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorBob Greene
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight21.2 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-006671
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal973.92092 B
SynopsisIn a dazzling display of narrative reporting, award-winning journalist and "New York Times"-bestselling author Greene takes readers on an unforgettable American journey of music, memories, and universal longing. 8-page b&w photo insert., In a dazzling and exhilarating display of narrative on-the-road reporting, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bob Greene takes readers on an unforgettable American journey of music, memories, and universal longing. Running away to join the circus is a dream we're told to put away once we're no longer young. But, as Bob Greene writes, "just when in our lives we give up on capturing the freedom and bright mornings of our world when it was new, sometimes something happens to keep the sun high in the sky a while longer. Sometimes we find something we weren't even aware we were looking for." For fifteen years beginning in the 1990s, Greene stepped into a universe that, out in the country every summer night, is hiding in plain sight: the touring world of the great early rock bands who gave America the car-radio and jukebox music it still loves best. Singing backup with the legendary Jan and Dean as they endlessly crisscross the nation, Greene takes us to football stadiums and minor-league ballparks, to no-name ice cream stands and midnight diners, to back roads and carnival midways as he tells a riveting story of great fame and lingering sorrow, of unexpected friendship and lasting dreams, of the things that keep us going in the face of all the things that threaten to stop us. Striking chords of recognition and yearning, "When We Get to Surf City" glistens with cameos by the men and women with whom Greene traveled the United States on his deliriously unlikely journey, including Chuck Berry, Martha and the Vandellas, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Beach Boys, the Monkees, the Kingsmen, James Brown, Lesley Gore, the Drifters, Little Eva, and the Coasters. All of them--not just the people on the stage, but the people in the audiences, too--are seeking their private versions of the mythical destination Jan and Dean came up with all those years ago: Surf City as the perfect, cloudless place we all believe is out there, if only we can find it. Hilarious and heartbreaking, moving and brilliant, this is the trip of a lifetime, a travelogue of the heart, accompanied by a thundering guitar chorus of Fender Stratocasters. It is a story destined to touch readers not just today, but for generations to come, as long as the music itself echoes.
LC Classification NumberML420.G853A3 2008
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- 17. Sep. 2023
Touring with Jan & Dean across small town USA in the @90s.
The storyline is not deep in the sense of requiring the reader to think long and hard, but rather it’s entertaining and well-paced along with being well-written. If you enjoyed the early days of surfin’ music as well as the joy of a good old fashioned road trip, and also want to know what it would be like to be an ol’ time rock n’ roll singer making a cross country tour of small town USA, you’ll enjoy this well written tale.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 10. Jul. 2025
sums up a time long ago.
bob greene does a great job of humanizing the tragic and compelling story of jan and dean.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
