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    To Throw Away Unopened
    To Throw Away Unopened
    To Throw Away Unopened
    Audiobook9 hours

    To Throw Away Unopened

    Written by Viv Albertine

    Narrated by Jasmine Blackborow

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    About this audiobook

    What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic.

    Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention — but in her follow up to Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys., Viv Albertine has reinvented the genre with her unflinching honesty.

    To Throw Away Unopened is a fearless dissection of one woman's obsession with the truth — the truth about family, power and her identity as a rebel and outsider. It is a gaping wound of a book, both an exercise in bloodletting and psychological archaeology, excavating what lies beneath: the fear, the loneliness, the anger. It is a brutal expose of human dysfunctionality, the impossibility of true intimacy and the damage wrought upon us by secrets and revelations, siblings and parents.

    Yet it is also a testament to how we can rebuild ourselves and come to face the world again. It is a portrait of the love stories that constitute a life, often bringing as much pain as joy. With the inimitable blend of humour, vulnerability and intelligence that makes Viv Albertine one of our finest authors working today, To Throw Away Unopened smashes through layers of propriety and leads us into a new place of savage self-discovery.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber
    Release dateOct 4, 2018
    ISBN9780571350322
    To Throw Away Unopened
    Author

    Viv Albertine

    (Sídney, 1954) fue una figura relevante de la escena punk londinense y miembro de la influyente banda femenina The Slits. Ha trabajado en varios proyectos cinematográficos y televisivos, y, tras un silencio de más de veinte años, retomó su carrera musical en solitario en 2010 con el ep de cuatro temas Flesh y en 2012 con el disco The Vermillion Border, muy bien recibido por la crítica. Ropa música chicos fue seleccionado como uno de los libros de 2014 por The Sunday Times, The Guardian, LA Times, Mojo, NME y Rough Trade.

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