Stuart Murdoch

Nobody's Empire (MP3-Download)

'Empathetic, funny and heartwarming.' Buzz Magazine Ungekürzte Lesung. 810 Min.
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Produktbeschreibung

It's the early 1990s in Glasgow, and Stephen - music loving romantic - has emerged from a lengthy hospital stay diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, a little-understood disease that has robbed him of any prospects of work, a social life or independent living. Meeting fellow strugglers, who the world seems to care less and less for, they form their own support group and try to get by as cheaply and as painlessly as possible. Finding that he has the ability to write songs, albeit in a slow and fledgling way, Stephen wakes to the possibility of a spiritual life beyond the everyday, and feels a calling for someplace else. Leaving Glasgow in search of a cure in the mythic warmth of California, Stephen and his friend Richard float between hostels, sofas, and park benches. Could the trip really offer them both a new-world reinvention?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571391769
• Artikelnr.: 71241471

Autorenporträt

Stuart Murdoch is a Scottish musician, composer writer, and filmmaker, and the lead singer and songwriter for the iconic Glasgow-based band Belle and Sebastian. Since forming in the mid-1990s, the band has released twelve acclaimed studio albums, including Tigermilk and If You're Feeling Sinister . Stuart’s online diaries were collected into his first book, The Celestial Café and in his work is featured in Belle and Sebastian: Illustrated Lyrics, featuring specially commissioned illustrations from Scottish artist Pamela Tait. Murdoch also scripted, composed, and directed the movie God Help the Girl, a musical coming-of-age drama. An outspoken advocate for sufferers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), Murdoch is also an Ambassador for the Open Medicine Foundation working to promote awareness of ME/CFS and the efforts to find a cure.

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"Stuart has done something really special here: Nobody's Empire is a smart and tender depiction of a gestating artist's soul, told with real wit and pathos. It's a portrait of the artist as a young convalescent." - Colin Meloy, singer-songwriter of The Decemberists and author of Wildwood

"Nobody's Empire is as memorable as it is moving [and] is a bright spotlight on a condition left to moulder too long in the dark. It's a public service in print." - The Times (UK)

"You don't have to be an indie-pop fan to appreciate this compassionate, sweet, beautifully written novel. Murdoch proves he's as good a novelist as he is a musician." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"A tender slice of autofiction...Nobody's Empire is mesmerizing in a low-key way, much like the music of Belle and Sebastian, and it leaves a smile on your face."
- Booklist (starred review)

"Murdoch's first novel is empathetic, funny and heartwarming." - Buzz Magazine

"[Murdoch's] most personal work to date [. . .] it's often poignant but also darkly humorous." - Irish Times

"The frontman of Belle & Sebastian recreates his younger years here in wonderfully limpid prose that looks at music and art and life and gives an insight into his struggles with ME." - The Scottish Herald

"Stuart Murdoch can write. He's made the transition from gifted songwriter to splendid author. 'Nobody's Empire' is a marvelous coming of age, come of wisdom, coming to California novel." - Robert Forster, singer-songwriter of The Go-Betweens and author of Grant & I: Inside and Outside the Go-Betweens

"A young man copes with chronic fatigue syndrome in Belle and Sebastian front man Stuart Murdoch's autobiographical debut novel, written with charming self-deprecation and winning petulance...Nobody's Empire can speak to anyone drawn to slay-the-dragon chronicles."
- Shelf Awareness

"Stuart Murdoch's mostly true novel about his chronic illness dazzles with indie charm...By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Nobody's Empire is a romantic world of possibility and youthful yearning." - Minnesota Star Tribune