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    <![CDATA[For the first time ever, Bono-the biggest rock star in the world-tells his life story. <br/><br/> Bono's career is unlike any other in rock history. As the lead singer of U2, Bono has sold 130 million albums, won fourteen Grammys, and played numerous sold-out world tours, but he has also lobbied and worked with world leaders from Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to Nelson Mandela on debt relief, AIDS, and other critical global issues. He has collaborated with the same musicians for nearly three decades and has been married to his childhood sweetheart since 1982. His life, at all turns, resists the rock star clichés. <br/><br/> In a series of intimate conversations with his friend Michka Assayas, a music journalist who has been with the band since the very beginning, Bono reflects on his transformation from the extrovert singer of a small Irish post-punk band into one of the most famous individuals in the world; and from an international celebrity to an influential spokesperson for the Third World. He speaks candidly about his faith, family, commitment, influences, service, and passion. <em>Bono: A Self-Portrait in Conversation</em> is the closest we will come, for now, to a memoir from the iconic frontman of U2.]]>
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    <![CDATA[For the first time ever, Bono-the biggest rock star in the world-tells his life story. <br/><br/> Bono's career is unlike any other in rock history. As the lead singer of U2, Bono has sold 130 million albums, won fourteen Grammys, and played numerous sold-out world tours, but he has also lobbied and worked with world leaders from Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to Nelson Mandela on debt relief, AIDS, and other critical global issues. He has collaborated with the same musicians for nearly three decades and has been married to his childhood sweetheart since 1982. His life, at all turns, resists the rock star clichés. <br/><br/> In a series of intimate conversations with his friend Michka Assayas, a music journalist who has been with the band since the very beginning, Bono reflects on his transformation from the extrovert singer of a small Irish post-punk band into one of the most famous individuals in the world; and from an international celebrity to an influential spokesperson for the Third World. He speaks candidly about his faith, family, commitment, influences, service, and passion. <em>Bono: A Self-Portrait in Conversation</em> is the closest we will come, for now, to a memoir from the iconic frontman of U2.]]>
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    <![CDATA[<em>Exhibition</em> commence dans la vallée de Chevreuse. Drôle  d'endroit pour le déballage intime. Et pourtant, au fil des lignes apparaît Philippe. À  moins que ce ne soit, évidemment, Michka Assayas en personne. L'enterrement de  la mère de ses amis d'enfance permet au narrateur de se retourner sur les années  passées. De &quot;déballer&quot; sur un père italien absent, sur une mère égocentrique, une  grand-mère attentive. Sur les amis qui ont réussi. Ceux qui ont raté. Sur ses propres  erreurs&#8230; Le sujet n'est pas nouveau mais il y a dans la prose d'Assayas,  ironiquement désespérée, quelque chose de profondément mélancolique et  attachant. Peut-être cela tient-il aussi à la description des années 80. De ce  que ces années avaient de fou et d'excitant, entre engagement politique, passion,  fourmillement de musiques, de recherches en tout genre. Les années rock dont  Philippe connaît les moindres notes. Peut-être fut-ce d'ailleurs sa seule vraie  passion tout au long de ces années ? Mais nous voilà maintenant en l'an  2000, où l'on ressort des placards la musique de ces années-là, où l'on cherche de  nouvelles excitations sexuelles dans le vinyle, la soumission, où l'on se rencontre  par écran interposé&#8230; Oui, décidément, ce roman transpire la solitude. Une  solitude analysée, parfois recherchée. Des occasions manquées, des ratages  professionnels, des amis en retrait&#8230; Des années <em>Actuel</em> au marasme  d'aujourd'hui, c'est toute une génération qui perd ses repères, ses envies, ses rêves.  Mais jamais, à l'image de Philippe, son humour désespéré. Ses interrogations sur  l'évolution d'une société devenue malade d'images, d'exhibition, de cynisme  touchent juste. L'enfant du rock a grandi, a vieilli. Et nous avec&#8230; <p>  <em>No Future</em> disaient les punks à l'époque où l'on ne voulait vivre qu'au jour  le jour mais où l'on savait intrinsèquement qu'il faudrait continuer à vivre demain.  Michka Assayas &#8211; par ailleurs journaliste et auteur du mythique <em>Dictionnaire du rock</em> (c'était  donc ça&#8230;) &#8211; offre, avec ce roman, une réflexion touchante et juste  sur les années qu'on croit ratées. Celles qu'on ne rattrape jamais mais qui nous font  avancer. Malgré tout. Un peu désespéré ? Non, juste actuel. <em>--Marine  Segalen</em>  </p>]]>
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