American Demon, An
Entre violence punk et quête de salut, An American Demon raconte la descente aux enfers et la rédemption de Jack Grisham, figure mythique de la scène hardcore californienne.
?An American Demon is Jack Grisham's story of depravity and redemption, terror and spiritual deliverance. While Grisham is best known as the raucous and provocative front man of the pioneer hardcore punk band TSOL (True Sounds of Liberty), his writing and true life experiences are physically and psychologically more complex, unsettling, and violent than those of Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk.
Eloquently disregarding the prefabricated formulas of the drunk-to-sober, bad-to-good tale, this is an entirely new kind of life lesson: summoned through both God and demons, while settling within eighties hardcore punk culture and its radical-to-the-core (and most assuredly non-evangelical) parables, Grisham leads us, cleverly, gorgeously, between temporal violence and bigger-picture spirituality toward something very much like a path to salvation and enlightenment. An American Demon flourishes on both extremes, as a scary hardcore punk memoir and as a valuable message to souls navigating through an overly materialistic and woefully self-absorbed "me first" modern society.
An American Demon conveys anger and truth within the perfect setting, using a youth rebellion that changed the world to open doors for this level of brash destruction. Told from the point of view of a seminal member of the American Punk movement - doused in violence, rebellion, alcoholism, drug abuse, and ending with beautiful lessons of sobriety and absolution - this book is as harrowing and life-affirming as anything you're ever going to read.
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Eloquently disregarding the prefabricated formulas of the drunk-to-sober, bad-to-good tale, this is an entirely new kind of life lesson: summoned through both God and demons, while settling within eighties hardcore punk culture and its radical-to-the-core (and most assuredly non-evangelical) parables, Grisham leads us, cleverly, gorgeously, between temporal violence and bigger-picture spirituality toward something very much like a path to salvation and enlightenment. An American Demon flourishes on both extremes, as a scary hardcore punk memoir and as a valuable message to souls navigating through an overly materialistic and woefully self-absorbed "me first" modern society.
An American Demon conveys anger and truth within the perfect setting, using a youth rebellion that changed the world to open doors for this level of brash destruction. Told from the point of view of a seminal member of the American Punk movement - doused in violence, rebellion, alcoholism, drug abuse, and ending with beautiful lessons of sobriety and absolution - this book is as harrowing and life-affirming as anything you're ever going to read.
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Ce livre offre un témoignage rare sur la scène punk hardcore des années 80, vu par l'un de ses acteurs majeurs. Jack Grisham y mêle autobiographie crue et réflexion sur la rédemption, sans jamais tomber dans le cliché du récit de sobriété classique. Son style, à la fois poétique et violent, en fait une lecture aussi dérangeante qu’inoubliable.
Le livre explore la dépravation, la violence, la drogue, mais aussi la spiritualité, la révolte adolescente et la quête de sens. Grisham y décrit son parcours chaotique, entre excès punk et recherche d’absolu, tout en interrogeant la place de l’individu dans une société matérialiste.
Aux amateurs de mémoires rock, de littérature transgressive et de récits de résilience. Les fans de punk, de contre-culture ou de récits autobiographiques brutaux y trouveront une source d’inspiration. Attention : certains passages, très crus, peuvent heurter les sensibilités.
Vous pourrez interroger le livre sur les anecdotes de la scène punk californienne, les détails de la vie de Jack Grisham, ses réflexions sur la spiritualité et la rédemption, ou encore sur les liens entre musique, violence et société. Le smartbook permet aussi d’approfondir les thèmes de la drogue, de la création artistique et de la reconstruction personnelle.
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