The Importance of Music to Girls: Lavinia Greenlaw - Softcover

Greenlaw, Lavinia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571332277 ISBN 13: 9780571332274

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2017

Synopsis

If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway . . . the music attracted and repelled, organised and disturbed and then let us into the night, clusters of emotion ready to dissolve into sleep.

In The Importance of Music to Girls, Lavinia Greenlaw tells the story of the adventures that music leads us into: getting drunk, falling in love, dying of boredom, cutting our hair, terrifying our parents, wanting to change the world. This is a vivid memoir unlike any other, recalling the furious passion of being young, female, and coming alive through music.

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Review:

Despite the title, this is not a girlie book, but a poetic, evocative exploration of music and identity. Greenlaw's preferences range from Bob Dylan to Joy Division, her prose has a sharp honesty and she wields her erudition lightly., Sunday Times

It is the candour of this off-beat memoir that makes it stand out. There is no guff about the transcendental power of music: more a wry reflection on the way in which music weaves its way in and out of childhood., Sunday Telegraph

Greenlaw's unflinching eye and spare, sophisticated prose render a rare and quite beautiful book., Observer

Book Description:

The Importance of Music to Girls is award-winning poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw's vivid and engaging portrait of what music means to us as we grow up.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0571332277
• ISBN 13: 9780571332274
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208