I got my copy of "Rat Girl" in the mail and read it in 2 days! It was great to get an intimate view of Kristin, especially when she was young. I'm so happy she wrote this book! I just got my copy of "Crooked" in the mail today, too. I haven't been as happy as I am with a book as I am with both of these in a long time!
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- Posted by Alistair 2 years ago. There are 82 posts. The latest reply is from wiley.
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I really hope this works....
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Where is that from Alistair?
Re Amazon, I ordered mine about 2-months back and received it last week. Still not read it??
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Vaughan Oliver posted it on Facebook. Isn't it gorgeous?
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So, do we shout "POSTER" here, at Vaughan, at the publisher....?
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i think the poster looks AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL...
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Thanks for that - it does indeed look great
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Beautiful cover! I think Americans could have handled that title and cover. Although I'm digging the other title and cover too. Maybe I need to buy both.
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I knew it would be something special. And it is. It is gorgeous. Thanks for posting it, Alistair.
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Just finished Rat Girl, and it was one of the best reads I've had in a while, really excellent. Wistful, demanding, poignant and funny in equal measures, a beautiful tale of music, mania and motherhood.
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That poster is beautiful, where do I get one???
My brother bought me Rat Girl for my birthday yesterday :)
Looking forward to Paradoxical Undressing too!
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Is this the final official cover? It's what's on Amazon UK now. Either one is BEAUTIFUL.
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I'd like a closer look at the actual book on that poster - is it somebody's scrapbook, or was it specially made for PU?
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It's a Shinro Ohtake scrapbook.
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Aha - should've guessed! Ta...
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I'll take one of Shinro's books along with K's, thanks.
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Promo dates in Europe & the UK early next year then - should be fun!
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I had one question about the book-
Kristin's account of her bicycle accident is pretty impressionistic, so it's hard to tell. Did she actually lose her foot in the crash, or was that a hallucination?
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she always seems sure footed to me, rarely makes a mis-step.
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Since you asked. K suffered compound fractures of both her tibia and fibula. That is to say, her shin was snapped in two and the broken ends of bones protruded through the skin of the lower leg. Her foot was held on by other means - and was folded under her calf when she first looked down at her leg. So to her, it appeared as if her foot was gone. In shock, she found it and replaced it before the ambulance arrived.
Several surgeries, over a year in a wheel chair and a loss of about 1 1/2 inches of bone...ongoing back and nerve issues as a result of one leg being 1 1/2 inches shorter than the other. It's not subtle, I can tell you.
She's very plucky, but man, she was destroyed by that accident.
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She's very plucky, but man, she was destroyed by that accident.
It's all made more poignant/moving given the very real possibility that none of us would be here if it hadn't happened
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Christ, she really danced right past that year in a wheelchair in the narrative.
Wonderful read, a tough lady. The book has me going back and rediscovering those first few Throwing Muses albums. I have so many memories attached to them.
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