Author : Marcy Gannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781667816555
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Book Synopsis Elevation and Beyond by : Marcy Gannon
Download or read book Elevation and Beyond written by Marcy Gannon and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elevation and Beyond is the true story of the birth of unreasonable devotion to a rock band. It is one fan's voyage through life within the context of that devotion. The narrative follows an arcing, sometimes looping, process from self-centered isolation to connection and integration. The process begins within the context of an Irish Catholic family upbringing in the eighties, where the author as a child is exposed to and impressed upon by the music of U2 through the vinyl records of her older siblings. Upon arrival into adolescence, she sustains a traumatic brain injury; the subsequent blanket of post-concussive depression and isolated misery is infiltrated only by the lighted images of Bono singing and smoking alone at a darkened bar in the video for "One" in 1992. From there, the chase begins. Movement out of fear and alienation is spurred by the fire of her passion for U2 and U2 music. From a lonely teenage bedroom wall-papered with pictures of Bono and U2, she makes her debut at college with a drive to see U2 live in concert again, and again, and again.