Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
Author :
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 256
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780393651652
ISBN-13 : 0393651657
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by : Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

Download or read book Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir written by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman leaves Appalachia for life as a classical musician—or so she thinks. When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When the group “performs,” the microphones are never on. Instead, the music blares from a CD. The mastermind behind this scheme is a peculiar and mysterious figure known as The Composer, who is gaslighting his audiences with music that sounds suspiciously like the Titanic movie soundtrack. On tour with his chaotic ensemble, Hindman spirals into crises of identity and disillusionment as she “plays” for audiences genuinely moved by the performance, unable to differentiate real from fake. Sounds Like Titanic is a surreal, often hilarious coming-of-age story. Hindman writes with precise, candid prose and sharp insight into ambition and gender, especially when it comes to the difficulties young women face in a world that views them as silly, shallow, and stupid. As the story swells to a crescendo, it gives voice to the anxieties and illusions of a generation of women, and reveals the failed promises of a nation that takes comfort in false realities.


Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir Related Books

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-12 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A young woman leaves Appalachia for life as a classical musician—or so she thinks. When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a prof
Titanic Survivor
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Violet Jessop
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-04 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwi
Last Dinner on the Titanic
Language: en
Pages: 144
Authors: Rick Archbold
Categories: Cooking
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With original menus, authentic recipes and splendid illustrations, this book accurately re-creates what it was like to dine on the most famous of all ships.
Titanic Love Stories: The true stories of 13 honeymoon couples wh
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Gill Paul
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-24 - Publisher: Ivy Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The sinking of the RMS Titanic was a tragedy for all the 1,517 people who died, but the accounts of 13 brides and grooms who joined the ship to celebrate their
Becoming Eve
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Abby Stein
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-12 - Publisher: Seal Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman Abby Stein was raised in a Hasid