false 6162522 1 The rise and fall of a true American icon: A rock star, inspired by genre-busting musicians of the sixties like Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, and Marvin Gaye.<br><br>A swirling sixties saga of the rise and fall of a true American icon: A rock star. But not just any rock star: Rock Foxx is an outrageous showman whose unprecedented mixed-race, mixed-gender band made a new kind of socially conscious music that was infectious and tribal and scaled the heights of sixties rock stardom, all the way to Woodstock and beyond. But Foxx seemed to disappear at the height of his fame, his contagious, upbeat music darkening, then ending ubruptly amidst rumors of drugs and violence, as the culture itself exploded into massive riots and assassinations.<br>In the hands of<i> New Yorker</i> editor Ben Greenman, it's a story that is both highly literary and simply entertaining, a tale about rock and roll and about a complicated but key moment in our history. Exciting, funny, disturbing and uplifting, with some of the most deft and absorbing writing about music ever to appear in American fiction, this pseudo-bio of a fascinating character is an amazing creation in itself, and sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year. 6341719 5 5 2009 Please Step Back total:25|5:3|4:4|3:12|2:5|1:1| 25 78 55 6 2 1 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 08:55:50 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 11:28:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 16:46:03 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 17:15:04 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 14:33:57 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 08:38:55 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 10:23:59 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 15:10:50 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Apr 07 09:58:30 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 09:59:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 11:59:07 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 11:59:23 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Nov 16 14:37:42 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 14:37:42 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Mon Nov 16 01:34:29 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 13:37:13 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 13:37:13 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Oct 29 14:22:36 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 14:22:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 28 03:36:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 03:36:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 20 10:24:05 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 10:24:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 11 21:49:04 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 21:49:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 10 09:24:04 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 09:24:04 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Sep 30 13:59:11 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 13:59:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Sep 10 07:12:41 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 07:12:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 07 06:10:03 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 06:10:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 05 12:29:59 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 12:29:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 29 17:55:11 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 17:55:11 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Aug 14 21:08:52 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 21:08:52 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 09:14:10 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 09:14:28 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6162522