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Keith Me
Paperback
ISBN13: 9782234061507
Publisher: Stock
Published: Aug 20 2008
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
Rights sold to: Germany.
Under option in: Italy, Romania and Norway.
Keith me is not yet another book on the Rolling Stones. Neither is it Keith Richards' biography or Amanda Sthers' autobiographical account of her love life. Rather, Keith me is a sum of these three books. Amanda Sthers (Andrea Stein in the book) manages this quite amazing literary feat by first slipping into Keith Richards' skin. She becomes the man whose face is criss-crossed with wrinkles, the child lost in Dartford's public park. She is Mick Jagger's lover and, when they make love for the first time, she turns herself into the genius guitar player who can get the most beautiful women in the world. She takes the same drugs, she follows the same devilish path and she survives. Implicitly, she is also a young woman with children and a broken relationship, whom no-one really cares for and who seems to have to go through some periods of profound unhappiness before being recognized as an artist. How to get over one's grief? How to cast a fresh eye on one's failed relationship? Amanda Sthers manages to do this by changing personality: she switches role and gender and steps in the shoes of the old boy who snorted his father's ashes.
Since her literary beginnings, Amanda Sthers has never failed to surprise us. After her first autobiographical memoir, Ma place sur la photo (Grasset, 2004), she produced the thought-provoking story of a New-York Jew, Chicken street (Grasset, 2005), then wrote the successful play Le Vieux Juif blonde (Grasset, 2006). Madeleine, published by Stock in 2007, has definitely established her as one of today's important authors.
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