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Publishers Weekly,McBride embarks on a biographical journey to explore the life of the hardest-working man in show business, even though the National Book Award-winning author admits up front that Brown remains a figure so enigmatic that newly discovered facts make the established public history more-rather than less-difficult to understand. McBride views the "Godfather of Soul" as an icon who embodies all the complexities and contradictions of American life. Veteran stage and screen actor Hoffman doesn't miss a beat in presenting the dialogue, such that Brown's larger-than-life raspy voice comes through with those same complexities and contradictions. Hoffman seems determined to get it right and ditch affected parodies and caricatures as a narrator, in the same manner that McBride seeks clarity in his writing. Hoffman particularly excels in his display of Brown-for all of his failed relationships and emotional demons-as an avuncular wise elder in the grooming of close friend and advisor Rev. Al Sharpton and in Brown's tender bond with the one grandson with whom he consistently remained close. Rendered in such skilled hands, the many Brown catchphrases-including the book's title-take on a moving testament of survival rather than just remaining catchy aphorisms. A Random/Spiegel & Grau hardcover. (Apr.) ��� Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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- Book formatHardcover
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- GenreBiography & Memoirs
- Publication dateNovember, 2016
- Pages256
- Reading levelGeneral
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"You won't leave this hypnotic book without feeling that James Brown is still out there, howling."--The Boston Globe From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Five-Carat Soul Kill 'Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied the contradictions of American life: He was an unsettling symbol of the tensions between North and South, black and white, rich and poor. After receiving a tip that promises to uncover the man behind the myth, James McBride goes in search of the "real" James Brown. McBride's travels take him to forgotten corners of Brown's never-before-revealed history, illuminating not only our understanding of the immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated Godfather of Soul, but the ways in which our cultural heritage has been shaped by Brown's enduring legacy. Praise for Kill 'Em and Leave "A tour de force of cultural reportage."--The Seattle Times "Thoughtful and probing."--The New York Times Book Review "Masterly . . . powerful."--Los Angeles Review of Books
"McBride provides something lacking in most of the books about James Brown: an intimate feeling for the musician, a veracious if inchoate sense of what it was like to be touched by him. . . . It may be as close [to 'the real James Brown'] as we'll ever get."--David Hajdu, The Nation "A feat of intrepid journalistic fortitude."--USA Today "[McBride is] the biographer of James Brown we've all been waiting for. . . . McBride's true subject is race and poverty in a country that doesn't want to hear about it, unless compelled by a voice that demands to be heard."--Boris Kachka, New York "Illuminating . . . engaging."--The Washington Post "A gorgeously written piece of reportage that gives us glimpses of Brown's genius and contradictions."--O: The Oprah Magazine
"McBride provides something lacking in most of the books about James Brown: an intimate feeling for the musician, a veracious if inchoate sense of what it was like to be touched by him. . . . It may be as close [to 'the real James Brown'] as we'll ever get."--David Hajdu, The Nation "A feat of intrepid journalistic fortitude."--USA Today "[McBride is] the biographer of James Brown we've all been waiting for. . . . McBride's true subject is race and poverty in a country that doesn't want to hear about it, unless compelled by a voice that demands to be heard."--Boris Kachka, New York "Illuminating . . . engaging."--The Washington Post "A gorgeously written piece of reportage that gives us glimpses of Brown's genius and contradictions."--O: The Oprah Magazine
Publishers Weekly,McBride embarks on a biographical journey to explore the life of the hardest-working man in show business, even though the National Book Award-winning author admits up front that Brown remains a figure so enigmatic that newly discovered facts make the established public history more-rather than less-difficult to understand. McBride views the "Godfather of Soul" as an icon who embodies all the complexities and contradictions of American life. Veteran stage and screen actor Hoffman doesn't miss a beat in presenting the dialogue, such that Brown's larger-than-life raspy voice comes through with those same complexities and contradictions. Hoffman seems determined to get it right and ditch affected parodies and caricatures as a narrator, in the same manner that McBride seeks clarity in his writing. Hoffman particularly excels in his display of Brown-for all of his failed relationships and emotional demons-as an avuncular wise elder in the grooming of close friend and advisor Rev. Al Sharpton and in Brown's tender bond with the one grandson with whom he consistently remained close. Rendered in such skilled hands, the many Brown catchphrases-including the book's title-take on a moving testament of survival rather than just remaining catchy aphorisms. A Random/Spiegel & Grau hardcover. (Apr.) ��� Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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