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Simon & Schuster
October 2016
On Sale: September 27, 2016
Featuring: Bruce Springsteen
ISBN: 1501141511
EAN: 9781501141515
Kindle: B01BNSK4V2
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed
at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The experience was so
exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That’s
how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately
devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing
to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality
found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey,
amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his
imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as “The
Big Bang”: seeing Elvis Presley’s debut on The Ed Sullivan
Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a
musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park,
and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he
also tells for the first time the story of the personal
struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the
song “Born to Run” reveals more than we previously realized. Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever
enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a
legendary rock star’s memoir. This is a book for workers and
dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists,
freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the
holy river of rock and roll. Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force
and sweep. Like many of his songs (“Thunder Road,”
“Badlands,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “The River,”
“Born in the U.S.A.,” “The Rising,” and “The Ghost of Tom
Joad,” to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen’s
autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular
songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply
about his experiences.
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