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Emotional Rescue: Essays on Love, Loss, and Life—with a Soundtrack

by Ben Greenman
4 CDs. 4:30 hrs. Brilliance. Aug. 2016. ISBN 9781522639114. $14.99. 1 MP3-CD. MUSIC
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Greenman (The Slippage) presents a short collection of essays that are part music criticism and part personal memoir. Greenman takes on a different theme in each chapter—feelings, images, and motifs ranging from light to solitude to language—and draws a connection among the lyrics of rock songs classic and obscure. Each chapter includes ruminations on how the chosen theme illuminates relationships with women, family, and friends in the author's life. Narrator Dan John Miller brings an appropriately dry and thoughtful honesty to his reading.
VERDICT Fans of rock criticism such as Greil Marcus's History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs will find this anthology as eclectic but with a more personal tone.
Reviewed by Jason Puckett, Georgia State Univ. Lib., Atlanta , Nov 15, 2016
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