A Double Life: ‘Gripping’ - Erin Kelly

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Claire is a hardworking doctor leading a simple, quiet life in London. She is also the daughter of the most notorious murder suspect in the country, though no one knows it. Was it genuine, arising from Dylan’s soul? He later said it was what was ‘in’. And when he was over it, he did his own thing, scandalously adopting the next big thing in music. He went electric. The audiences wanted the ‘old Bob Dylan,’ booing him across the world. In response, he turned up the volume. El libro realmente trata sobre eso, su obsesión, sus sentimientos al respecto, los traumas generados y demás.

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Yeah. But I didn’t hear everything in Tulsa. I had access to some of that stuff in New York. But yes, all of the tapes are in Tulsa. s. I was intrigued by the fact that the book was loosely inspired by one of the most notorious unsolved crimes of the 20th century—the Lord Lucan case. It was well written and interesting, but I didn’t care for the way it jumps between present and past, without warning at times. But it held my attention enough to make me curious about the details of the actual case. Pavlova’s novel A Double Life shook the Russian literary world when it was published in 1848, earning widespread praise for its revolutionary form and psychological acuity. . . . The slim mixed-genre novel—translated by Barbara Heldt and released this year in a new edition . . . follows the 18-year-old Cecily von Lindenborn as her mother attempts to find her a husband. . . . The book is remarkable for its insights about the workings of internalized oppression. Talya Zax, The Atlantic Gabriela has the “double life” and the novel endeavours to explain how she has ended up in this position.

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Heylin, like an unfortunate number of folks who write about Dylan, is a pompous, arrogant ass. He spends way too much time putting down other biographers. He seems to think we might care about what others got wrong but he has surely gotten right. Damn, man just get it right, and don’t mention Scaduto, Spitz, or Shelton. He also spends way too much space on Dylan’s random drivel in the form of his bad stream of conscious writing that became Tarantula and liner notes to 60s albums and in the incoherent interviews he gave on the tours in ‘65 and ‘66. Claire nos irá relatando como ese hecho marcará y cambiará sus vidas. Puesto que su padre continúa desaparecido veintiséis años después, ella no ha podido pasar página. Son numerosas las veces en las que la policía les dice que lo han encontrado y resulta no ser así. Cuando comienza la historia la policía cree haber localizado al fugitivo, y eso descoloca a nuestra protagonista que ya en la treintena sigue obsesionada con su padre. La joven decidirá descubrir ella misma el paradero de lord Spenser y para ello regresará a escenarios de su pasado y comenzará una intensa investigación. Me ha costado un mundo leerlo, es una historia lenta aunque bien narrada y para ser honesta me parece que me ha costado y que el sinsabor que me ha dejado el libro es provocado más debido a que encontré algo que no esperaba al leer este libro, me esperaba más bien un thriller o una novela negra o algo parecido y más bien me he encontrado con un libro narrado en primera persona que presenta una serie de cavilaciones provenientes de la mente de la protagonista, ha sido una agonía personal leerla. Dylan’s determination to succeed was relentless. He was a poser. A user. A dissembler. Adept at reinventing himself. Just started this book. I read an earlier book by this author and I am reminded of his superior, snotty tone. I suppose that his research is solid. But his snark and insults toward other books about Dylan are off-putting. He seems to think he alone is the Dylan expert.

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The office was kind enough to let me see the proper finding aid instead of the document they used to attract interest from academic institutions. And once I saw that, obviously I knew. It gave a sense of just how much manuscript material there was. A better person would for­give him. A different sort of better person would have found him years ago.” Shortly before that, yes. I knew that the Dylan office was cataloging some things. They were kind enough to let me see the material for Lost on the River, that pre– Basement Tapes material, when that project was being done. I helped with the documentary they were creating and I realized that there was some excavating going on if they’d turned up that type of material.

Nearly thirty years ago, while Claire and her brother slept upstairs, a brutal crime was committed in her family's townhouse. The next morning, her father's car was found abandoned near the English Channel, with bloodstains on the front seat. Her mother insisted she'd seen him in the house that night, but his powerful, privileged friends maintained his innocence. The first lord accused of murder in more than a century, he has been missing ever since.

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What he can’t remember is that Dylan didn’t write “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” when he landed. He wrote it three days later. And in the interim, he recorded most of the album. He wrote “Sad Eyed Lady” because he’d run out of songs he intended to record, not because he’d arrive from Richmond and went, “Shit, I don’t have any songs.” Even at the time, he tweaked it. Now, I'm waiting, as all readers must be, for the third book in the trilogy. And actually hoping that Philby won't stop at three. She's onto something here with her interconnected storylines. And I love it. No wonder she needs a corkboard that covers her entire wall (as she told the One More Chapter bookchat during her interview for her last book). The story is told in alternative sections between the two women and the author does not reveal the tenuous link between the two of them until quite near the end. I guess it would probably have to be Together Through Life. It has one great song on it, “Forgetful Heart.” Berry, whose Under the Harrow won her the Edgar award for best first novel, skips between Claire’s present-day investigations and her reconstruction of her parents’ lives almost three decades earlier in this beautifully paced and satisfyingly ominous story.

It seemed that stalking her father's friends and concocting stories to insinuate herself into their inner circle was her full time job. Claire Alden es la protagonista principal de esta novela. No he podido conectar con ella y creo que eso me ha perjudicado a la hora de leer. Entiendo que lo que le ocurrió marca la vida de cualquiera, pero las decisiones que toma siendo adulta no me gustan demasiado. No conocemos demasiado a los personajes, ya que algunos aparecen solo para su actuación puntual y luego nos quedamos con las ganas de saber más de ellos. He had a lot going against him but he also had a lot going for him. Self confidence, for one. The ruthlessness artists need to succeed. And something else, a charisma that grew on listeners and brought them under his thrall. Leaving protest folk, his lyrics represented a personal iconography that we can’t always translate into logical language, filled with images and references that elude us while invoking an emotional response. In other words–poetry. This is a chilling psychological thriller that looks at how children's healing can be stifled when exposed to a tragedy in the family. Claire and Robbie were small children when their father walked into their house killed the nanny and attempted to kill their mom. Unable to understand what took place, she has spent the last 30 years questioning where her father is and how he could have committed such a crime. Themes of privilege, victim blaming, history and consequences run throughout the narrative and it is at turns chilling and emotionally resonant. Beautifully written, stand out characters and a hugely immersive sense of place and time make A Double Life an absolute must read.

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And yet the marriages Eliot depicted most strikingly in her novels were nightmares of coercion and control – as if she were trying to warn women against leaping into folly. Janet Dempster is battered and thrown into the street barefoot by her drunken husband in Scenes of Clerical Life. In Middlemarch, Dorothea Brooke, seeking intellectual communion with a like-minded spouse, winds up jealously circumscribed, thwarted and exploited by Casaubon, her pompous husk of a husband. Heylin complains in his introduction that Dylan researchers are usually referred to as "obsessives" but Shakespeare researchers are called "scholars". Heylin is a Dylan obsessive, in the best possible way. That material was revelatory since it was a missing period. There had been no documentation about that material. Audio excavations were already starting to happen. They were going through the tapes. And I had some roles to play in some of the Bootleg Series, especially the Basement Tapes one since they ended up using some of my tapes. [ Laughs] The original weren’t at hand. This book doesn't really cover any new ground, though Heylin culled most of his "new" research from the Dylan Archives in Tulsa which he got exclusive access to. What is does is provide an in-depth look into many of the facets of Dylan's early life, growing up in Minnesota, making a name for himself in New York, the recording of Highway 61, working with what would become The Band, and of course, going electric.Now as a 58 year old, I'm not even the slightest bit horrified of the antics of the young Dylan, and Mr. Heylin has found more of them for me to be nonplussed about. This book adds much richer details to Scaduto's outline. There are also new discussions of the drugs and women that Dylan used. Clinton Heylin has written eight books about Bob Dylan during the past 30 years, including the acclaimed 1991 biography Behind the Shades (which he updated in 2001 and 2011), making it seem unlikely he’d ever have anything new to say on the subject. But then the news hit in 2016 that Dylan had unloaded a 6,000-piece collection of lyric manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, letters, and audio and video materials to the George Kaiser Family Foundation, most of it never before seen by the public. Finally, Eliot has got the biographer she deserves, namely an ardent and eloquent feminist philosopher who shows us how and why Eliot’s books, rightly read, are as philosophically profound as any treatise written by a man. Carlisle has edited Eliot’s translation of Spinoza’s Ethics and recently wrote a book on the philosopher’s expansive understanding of religion. My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher Little, Brown and Company for an advanced copy of this musical biography. Once banished from the literary canon, this new release of her only novel includes both her prose and poetry that offer astute observations of Russian society. Christian Science Monitor A Double Life is an appealing novel, offering a colorful, penetrating portrait of Moscow's high society in those times, especially the lives of the wives and women in it. M. A. Orthofer, The Complete Review A Double Life has plenty to say about how the marriage market deprived young noblewomen of outward agency and constrained their inner lives. . . . Heldt’s translation beautifully conveys the prose narrator’s astringent tone as well as the emotional intensity of the dreamworld’s poetry. Katharine Hodgson, Times Literary Supplement