{"product_id":"earlier-paperback-2","title":"Earlier - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSasha Frere-Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSasha Frere-Jones's evolution as a writer and musician with the deceptively casual intelligence that marks all of his work.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShuttling between his first year of life (1967) and the year he wrote the book (2020), \u003ci\u003eEarlier\u003c\/i\u003e is a glorious sequence of moments, a record of the experiences that set the shape of a life. Frere-Jones's prose floats between clinically precise fragments and emotional impressions of revelations, pleasures, and accidents. It's a book about how lives happen and sensibilities form. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs fellow music critic Alex Ross observes, \"It is weird to write a book about yourself, as this book is well aware. Gazing in the mirror is not mass entertainment. Sasha Frere-Jones, a writer of nonchalant, rope-a-dope power, drops the illusion of self-knowledge and instead offers up a kaleidoscope of memory shards, faithful to the chaos of inner and outer worlds. Earlier is funny, cool, raw, wise, and secretly sublime.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBegun in 2010, \u003ci\u003eEarlier\u003c\/i\u003e was completed at the request of Deborah Holmes, to whom the book is dedicated. Holmes is the mother of Frere-Jones's two boys, Sam and Jonah. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in July of 2020, Holmes died in January of 2021. \u003ci\u003eEarlier\u003c\/i\u003e is the last book she read. Frere-Jones says, \"Deborah was the most enthusiastic reader I've ever met. She read when she wasn't doing something else, and that never changed. She asked me to write this when we met, in 1990. I am sorry I made her wait so long.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSasha Frere-Jones grew up in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. His play, \u003ci\u003eWe Three Kings\u003c\/i\u003e, was recognized by the Young Playwrights Festival in 1983 and performed at The Public Theater. He completed a short film called \u003ci\u003eThe Take\u003c\/i\u003e in 1986. His first band, Dolores, completed two albums in the Eighties, and he is a member of Ui, whose work is available through The Numero Group. Frere-Jones plays with Body Meπa, who record for Hausu Mountain, as well as Calvinist and Fellas. He has written about music and books since 1994, and lives in the East Village with his wife, Heidi DeRuiter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 7.87 x 5.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47255144464633,"sku":"9781635901962","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/duxsr0Ke1s9781635901962_93be2b23-6471-47d0-9f9e-09e668cb4095.webp?v=1768717671","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/earlier-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}