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338 pages, Paperback
First published January 14, 2015
“What do you call on when life gets tough?”
“Alcohol, denial and fast women.”
She smiled. “Seriously.”
“I am serious.” Zander passed the cigarette inches under his nose to breathe in the acrid scent of tobacco, then regretfully dropped it in the trash.
“What would your answer be?”
“Prayer. Conscience. Faith,” she said without a trace of embarrassment.
Rock born from flame.
I loved the book from its mood-defining cover to a very satisfying ending. Ever since reading What the Librarian Did I became a fan of the author. Rise is a sequel staring Devin’s older brother Zander, a jaded, selfish, vain 40-year-old rock star at the peak of his band resurrection and second coming. He sings to sold-out concerts, travels around the world. His life on the outside is sex, drugs and rock’n’role. But all of this is overshadowed by his secret- he is losing his voice. Before worst could happen and his voice failed, Zander wants to secure his legacy with a kick-ass memoir. He offers a writing job to the Pulitzer-prize-winning biographer Elizabeth Winston. He needs herfor her literary cred and to land a ring of truth to a memoir that would secure his place in the pantheon of rock’n’role greats. Not bare his darkest secrets. Because if people knew him for who he truly was, they’d despise him.
Elizabeth is as far removed from Zander’s world as can be. She is serious, calm, intelligent, rational, professional. Her books are all biographies of historical people long dead.