![]() ![]() And, already being a fan of New Order (thanks to my sister Stacy who had Substance on LP), one line in the Rolling Stone Album Guide: “Bassist Peter Hook, drummer Steven Morris and guitarist Bernard Sumner founded New Order on the ashes of their previous band, Joy Division.” lead to me reading “Joy Division’s brief recorded legacy towers over the subsequent efforts of its imitators. ![]() But clearly there was stuff I was missing. It would be broken down by its various years with an epigraph for each one and it would begin with that brilliant line from Patti Smith: “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.” I had Horses and I had Never Mind the Bollocks and Boys Don’t Cry and they were fueling all of it. I had just come back from London and I had the spark of an idea to write a novel about punk. In the spring of 1996 I was getting very serious about music. “Ceremony” – Ian Curtis (music by Curtis / Hook / Morris / Sumner) Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook (2013) ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Bone People Summary & Study Guide on enotes. ![]() If you like this book, I recommend Cold Sassy Tree too. ![]() Read the poem that is at the beginning of the book (the prologue) again once you've finished it. The Bone People, styled by the writer and in some editions as the bone people, is a 1984 novel by New Zealand writer Keri Hulme. However, I highly recommend it for adults. So, I would not recommend it for young children. While this book is excellent, it deals with serious, difficult subject matter, including cancer, child abuse, drug dealers, various religious and ethical beliefs. ![]() Jakob's narrative is a rich chronicle of intellectual hungers generously satisfied, as ``Athos's tales of geologists and explorers, cartographers and navigators'' stimulate his young disciple's active imagination-an imagination also possessed by vivid memories of Jakob's dead parents and sister Bella, who appear to him as both vocal and visible presences. ![]() The main narrator, Jakob Beer, who tells his story at age 60 in 1992, was a Polish survivor of the Holocaust who, after losing his entire family in 1939, was rescued by Antanasios Roussos, a middle-aged scholar and polymath, who took Jakob to safety and raised him on the Greek island of Zakynthos. A moving tale of survival becomes a grave and stately hymn to the revivifying qualities of language and learning in this impressive debut by a Canadian poet. ![]() |