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Bezig met laden... The Farewell Tour: A Noveldoor Stephanie Clifford
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  blbooks | Mar 24, 2023 |   What legacy can you truly possess if you’ve done everything to erase your past? The Farewell Tour asks this question as country singer Lillian Waters embarks upon her final nationwide tour, after being diagnosed with severe, career-ending vocal damage. Clifford weaves fact and fiction together effortlessly as we are taken on a journey from a small farm in the 1920s to Lillian’s last time hitting the road in the 80s. As she contemplates the end of her career, Lillian begins looking back to her childhood. With her final stop set to be in the hometown she hasn’t returned to since first leaving, Lillian must confront her inner demons and the family betrayal which shaped her story. Along the way, many important subjects are explored, such as prejudice against immigrants, the horrors of America’s WWII Japanese prison camps, domestic and sexual abuse, and alcoholism as a coping method. This is a story about womanhood, enduring trauma, and survival. There are many scenes in this book which could be difficult to read, but the author handles the sensitive material with a masterful hand. One of my favorite things about the book was the obvious amount of research done by the author, which made it feel easy to cross the decades and country with her lead character. It’s critical, but remains a love letter to America, and especially to Washington state, wherein the majority of the action lies. Perfect for lovers of country music, historical fiction, and anyone who enjoyed the Parton/Patterson collaboration Run Rose Run, this is a fantastic read which deserves its own round of applause. In the end, the novel reads like a beautiful country song — full of wisdom and whiskey, dogs and dreams, a star, scars, and bittersweet love. (  ) LiteraryLeftovers | Feb 24, 2023 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: AUDIOBOOK FEATURES EXCERPTS FROM FOUR ORIGINAL SONGS WRITTEN AND COMPOSED BY THE AUTHOR From the author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody Rise, a rich and riveting novel with the exquisite historical detail and evocative settings of The Cold Millions and Great Circle that tells the story of one unforgettable woman's rise in country and western music. It's 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time. Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems, Lillian cobbles together a nationwide farewell tour featuring some old hands from her early days playing honky-tonk bars in Washington State and Nashville, plus a few new ones. She yearns to feel the rush of making live music one more time and bask in the glow of a packed house before she makes the last, and most important, stop on the tour: the farm she left behind at age ten and the sister she is finally ready to confront about an agonizing betrayal in their childhood. As the novel crisscrosses eras, moving between Lillian's youthâ??the Depression, the Second World War, the rise of Nashvilleâ??and her middle-aged life in 1980, we see her striving to build a career in the male-dominated world of country music, including the hard choices she makes as she tries to redefine music, love, aging, and womanhood on her own terms. Nearing her final tour stop, Lil is forced to confront those choices and how they shaped her life. Would a different version of herself have found the happiness and success that has eluded her? When she reaches her Washington hometown for her very last show, though, she'll undergo a reckoning with the past that forces her to reconsider her entire life story. Exploring one unforgettable woman's creativity, ambition, and sacrifices in a worldâ??and an art formâ??made for men, The Farewell Tour asks us to consider how much of our past we can ever leave Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Premise/plot: Lillian Waters (aka Lena Thorsell, aka "Water Lil") is a middle-aged country and western "star" returning to the road for her farewell tour. She's been absent from the music scene for a handful of years--three to five years. Her last performance did not go well. But after a medical diagnosis stuns her, she is out to mend her reputation and leave on a high note.
The narrative alternates between the present-day (1980/1981) and the past. (Lena was born in 1924, left home and changed her name at age ten.) Her life has been rough--full of ups and downs. Fame came 'relatively' later in life (her forties). But "fame" can't buy happiness. Nothing can.
My thoughts: I wanted to enjoy this one. I haven't always appreciated the history of country music, country "and western" music. But the older I get, the more appreciative I am of music that came before. I liked the name dropping well enough. I like the premise--of an "older" country star trying to stay relevant and in the business in the midst of all the newcomers, the up-and-comers. (Like Barbara Mandrell).
But. I found Lillian Waters to be an unlikable narrator. I found her abrasive and bitter. I found her ambitious and manipulative. She doesn't come across as a people person. She isn't empathetic or kind. (I don't have a problem with ambitious and hardworking. But she was so manipulative and unkind.) (