Título: Lou Reed: The Life
Autor: Mick Wall
Sinopse: Lou Reed wrote songs about drugs, squalor, transgressive sexuality, honourable prostitutes, visionary gutter queens and dollar-hustlers. He also wrote some of the most moving love songs of the era, from 'Pale Blue Eyes' to 'Perfect Day'. Always a generation ahead, he would never receive his due until later, when it was almost too late. The Velvet Underground, the group he led under the tutelage of Andy Warhol, were despised in their lifetime. Yet all his greatest solo albums - from Transformer to Berlin to his last, the Metallica-collaboration, Lulu - were considered meagre reflections of his best work with the Velvets. The story of Lou Reed is full of such contradictions. From the ECT treatment that scarred him at 17, to the 'thoughtful, meditative' figure Bono now recalls. From his three marriages, to his polysexual relationship with various New York characters, most especially Rachel: a transsexual to whom he dedicated 'Coney Island Baby'. 'He was a master,' said David Bowie, in the wake of Reed's death, on 27 October, 2013. In his lifetime he was called, variously, the Godfather of Punk, the High Priest of Glam, and all sorts of similarly tremble-tremble sobriquets. The truth is, Lou Reed began where rock left off. Before him, it was about entertainment. After him, rock was literary, dark, and above all, disquietingly honest. His work belongs not in the same safe place as The Beatles and the Stones, but next to William S. Burroughs, Hubert Selby Jr, Andy Warhol, and Reed's personal mentor, Delmore Schwartz. Now acclaimed biographer Mick Wall, a lifelong Lou Reed and Velvet Underground fan, brings you the story of the most misunderstood genius in rock.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Lou Reed: The Life”, de Mick Wall, publicado pela editora Orion, em 2013 e com 288 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Orion
Páginas: 288
Ano: 2013
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN:
ISBN13: 9781409153078
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Orion apresentam uma narrativa marcada por histórias que transitam entre o suspense e o drama humano, muitas vezes ambientadas em contextos históricos ou urbanos densos. A experiência de leitura tende a envolver conflitos pessoais profundos, como relacionamentos conturbados, segredos familiares e dilemas morais, que se desenrolam em ritmos variados, ora tensionados, ora mais introspectivos. O catálogo revela obras que exploram desde investigações policiais até dramas íntimos e romances com nuances complexas, sugerindo um equilíbrio entre tramas mais narrativas e outras com um tom mais psicológico e emocional. A diversidade temática permite que o leitor encontre tanto thrillers eletrizantes quanto relatos que enfatizam o desenvolvimento interno dos personagens, sempre com uma linguagem acessível e envolvente.
