Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Lynn Crosbie (English) Paperback Book

Description: Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Lynn Crosbie Does true love have supernatural power?Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a love story about a teenage girl who embarks on a relationship with Kurt Cobain.Evelyn Gray is a sad and lonely sixteen-year-old from Carnation, Washington who is terrorized by her classmates at school. She spends most of her time in her room reading, writing letters to dead people, listening to old records and talking to the poster of Kurt Cobain above her bed.Her mother is an alcoholic grunge relic from Seattle, whose recollections, books and music help ignite Evelyns love for Cobain-a love so painfully strong that it summons the deceased singer to her side.When Evelyn is taken to the hospital after an overdose, she awakens to find Cobain-who has little to no memory of his former life-convalescing in the bed beside her.Once united, they quickly become addicted to drugs and each other.Cobain-renamed Celine Black-and Evelyn escape the hospital and run off together, determined to have everything they want. Inevitably, they become infamous musicians, but despite their mutual devotion, the couple is tormented by strong passion and jealousy. As their celebrity grows, their relationship becomes more excessive, and an episode of sexual violence explodes, shockingly, into murder.A highly original work of haute fan fiction, written in Crosbies poetic and emotionally evocative prose, Where Did You Sleep Last Night is an imaginative, surprisingly funny, and touching novel about the adamant persistence of love. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Lynn Crosbie was born in Montreal and is a cultural critic, author, and poet. A Ph.D in English literature with a background in visual studies, she teaches at the University of Toronto and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her books (of poetry and prose) include Pearl, Queen Rat, and Dorothy LAmour. She is also the author of the controversial book, Pauls Case and most recently, Life Is About Losing Everything. She is a contributing editor at Fashion, and a National Magazine Award Winner who has written about sports, style, art, and music. Review Lynn Crosbie is what a great writer should be: pissed off, bereft, misunderstood, impolite, funny, and in love with the madness of the world. * Miriam Toews, author of All My Puny Sorrows *Where Did You Sleep Last Night is terrifying and beautiful. It is a thrift store jam packed with once loved, tattered, and gorgeous images. Crosbie is as mad as Rimbaud, as sweet as Keats, and as debauched as Courtney Love. Kurt Cobain would have adored her. * Heather ONeill, author of The Girl Who Was Saturday Night *Lynn Crosbies Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a brilliant portrait of romance, rages, passionate reunions, the emptiness of fame and the devastating losses that afflict two doomed rock stars locked in a heart-shaped box. Every sentence is poetry. I predict this book will, like Kurt Cobain, develop its own cult following. * Jowita Bydlowska, author of Drunk Mom *The books most affecting passages are the ones where Evelyns reverence for Celine bumps up against her desire to be a rock star in her own right…the sense of being caught in thrall to a self-destructive genius and trying to match him, note for note and mistake for mistake, is resonant. -- Adam Nayman * Quill & Quire *Bold, kaleidoscopic, full of absurd black humour, Lynn Crosbies new novel Where Did You Sleep Last Night is quite unlike anything else thats been published recently...It is pop and avant-garde, full of fireworks and heartbreak. -- Elizabeth Renzetti * The Globe and Mail *eminently worthy of our attention…restless, funny and artfully crazed -- Brett Josef Grubisic * Macleans *If you were a teenager in the 1990s, Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Lynn Crosbie is a must read * London Public Library Blog *I found myself alternately charmed and gutted… Lynn Crosbie has produced a grunge elegy -- Patricia Dawn Robertson * Toronto Star *At its heart, this is a beautiful and dead-earnest book about the awfully true desire to bring our long-lost loved ones—including the distant ones that hang on our walls as posters—back to life…Crosbie is one of the boldest and most consistently daring Canadian writers around. -- Angelo Muredda * Torontoist *Author Lynn Crosbie seems to paint the words on the page…This truly is a wonderful book * The Bookshelf Blog *Original and imaginative, filled with wonderfully witty wordplay and plenty of pop culture references… fan fiction for smarty pants. * THIS Magazine *The language is darkly poetic, sad yet full of passion -- Erin Lebar * Winnipeg Free Press *The intensity of Crosbies writing will sweep you up – its manic, sincere, explicit, and hilarious. If you ever had a teenage crush, this is its fever dream equivalent, and its not to be missed. -- Grace OConnell * W Dish *Deliciously bizarre, unapologetically brash, Lynn Crosbies Where Did You Sleep Last Night is shaping up to be one of the great reads of 2015 * Open Book *a literary wild ride through the grunge rock scene * CBC Homerun *Juxtaposed with Crosbies exquisite poetic style and a sense of humour both intelligent and delightfully bizarre, misery is transformed into something beautiful, while still retaining the essential sadness it was born of. * Rover Arts *just open to any page and find a paragraph that could stand alone as a devastatingly beautiful poem. This woman can write. -- Susan G. Cole * NOW Magazine *Crosbie makes this impossibility of reincarnation seem emotionally credible, with her book reading in places like a singular mash-up of fan fiction and magic realism. -- John Semley * Globe and Mail * Review Text Lynn Crosbie is what a great writer should be: pissed off, bereft, misunderstood, impolite, funny, and in love with the madness of the world. Review Quote "The surreal stream of-consciousness Crosbie adopts to describe their drug highs feels remarkably authentic. By turns funny and tragic, fan fiction and elegy, this is a must-read for Nirvana fans. Named for the song popularized by Lead Belly, which Cobain sang in one of his final performances, the novel is just as moving and raw." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Lynn Crosbie is what a great writer should be: pissed off, bereft, misunderstood, impolite, funny, and in love with the madness of the world." -- Miriam Toews, author of All My Puny Sorrows " Where Did You Sleep Last Night is terrifying and beautiful. It is a thrift store jam packed with once loved, tattered, and gorgeous images. Crosbie is as mad as Rimbaud as sweet as Keats and as debauched as Courtney Love. Kurt Cobain would have adored her." -- Heather ONeill, author of The Girl Who Was Saturday Night "Lynn Crosbies Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a brilliant portrait of romance, rages, passionate reunions, the emptiness of fame and the devastating losses that afflict two doomed rock stars locked in a heart-shaped box. Every sentence is poetry. I predict this book will, like Kurt Cobain, develop its own cult following." -- Jowita Bydlowska, author of Drunk Mom "Bold, kaleidoscopic, full of absurd black humour, Lynn Crosbies new novel Where Did You Sleep Last Night is quite unlike anything else thats been published recently...It is pop and avant-garde, full of fireworks and heartbreak." -- The Globe and Mail Details ISBN1770899316 Author Lynn Crosbie Short Title WHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT Pages 288 Language English ISBN-10 1770899316 ISBN-13 9781770899315 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Residence Toronto, -CN Birth 1963 Year 2016 Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada Place of Publication Concord Country of Publication Canada UK Release Date 2016-10-06 Publisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada Publication Date 2016-10-06 Alternative 9781770899339 Audience General AU Release Date 2017-01-02 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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