A searingly honest, heartbreaking work of genius, this is a book about music, poetry, devastating illness, creativity, sex and drugs, and twenty-something life in New York
Joshua Cody received his bachelor's degree in music composition from Northwestern University, and his master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University. Joshua is a composer living in New York City. This is his first book.
Writing this rawly self-conscious has no business captivating you,
let alone moving you. That it manages to do it anyway is a
testament to Mr. Cody's talent, honesty, and singularity * Jonathan
Franzen *
The memoir of the year. It's a sensorium, and a painful one, a book
in which the sentences swing into you like small, gleaming axes ...
He has a blazing intellect and can really write * New York Times,
Books of the Year *
With wordplay and quirky digression it renders a unique and serious
story ... Cody does have an extraordinary tale to tell ... A
masterclass * Observer *
As artfully constructed as a Tarantino film * New York Times Book
Review *
Hilarious and cracklingly intelligent, fully alive and original in
every sentence * Guardian, Books of the Year *
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