Liar: A Memoir

Author:   Rob Roberge
Publisher:   Future Tense Books
ISBN:  

9781892061867


Pages:   260
Publication Date:   12 April 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Liar: A Memoir


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Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. When Rob Roberge learns that he's likely to have developed a progressive memory-eroding disease from years of hard living and frequent concussions, he is terrified by the prospect of becoming a walking shadow. In a desperate attempt to preserve his identity, he sets out to (somewhat faithfully) record the most formative moments of his life. But the process of trying to remember his past only exposes just how fragile the stories that lay at the heart of our self-conception really are. As LIAR twists and turns through Roberge's life, it turns the familiar story of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll on its head. Darkly funny and brutally frank, it offers a remarkable portrait of a down and out existence cobbled together across the country, from musicians' crashpads around Boston to a painful moment of reckoning in the scorched Wonder Valley desert of California. As Roberge struggles to keep addiction and mental illness from destroying the good life he has built in his better moments, he is forced to acknowledge the increasingly blurred line between the lies we tell others and the lies we tell ourselves.

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Author:   Rob Roberge
Publisher:   Future Tense Books
Imprint:   Future Tense Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9781892061867


ISBN 10:   1892061864
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   12 April 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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"""In writing that manages to be beautiful and desperate, devastating and (occasionally) hysterical, Roberge engages the reader in his own ticking-clock struggle to get down the most unconfide-able memories of his life""--Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight ""It would be hard to imagine a less reliable narrator for this disjointed memoir, but the shaky perspective adds to the emotional power and unflinching honesty.""--Kirkus Reviews ""I've never read a book more intimately devoted to articulating how tenuous our hold on identity is. Identity is made, unmade, remade by chasing memory, and memory is a series of emotional intensities we barely survive. And yet, mercifully and sporadically, love comes. Read this memoir. Because life is what happens between truth and the fictions we make to withstand it."" --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water ""Through Roberge's disclosure of himself as a liar, we discover how stories and bodies hold literal and metaphoric resonance; how truth is conjured from contradictory tellings; how our minds reshape history to suit our ability to remember. We all make shit up to survive. Liar does so brilliantly."" --Sonya Lea, Los Angeles Review of Books"


In writing that manages to be beautiful and desperate, devastating and (occasionally) hysterical, Roberge engages the reader in his own ticking-clock struggle to get down the most unconfide-able memories of his life --Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight It would be hard to imagine a less reliable narrator for this disjointed memoir, but the shaky perspective adds to the emotional power and unflinching honesty. --Kirkus Reviews I've never read a book more intimately devoted to articulating how tenuous our hold on identity is. Identity is made, unmade, remade by chasing memory, and memory is a series of emotional intensities we barely survive. And yet, mercifully and sporadically, love comes. Read this memoir. Because life is what happens between truth and the fictions we make to withstand it. --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water Through Roberge's disclosure of himself as a liar, we discover how stories and bodies hold literal and metaphoric resonance; how truth is conjured from contradictory tellings; how our minds reshape history to suit our ability to remember. We all make shit up to survive. Liar does so brilliantly. --Sonya Lea, Los Angeles Review of Books


Author Information

LIAR is Rob Roberge's fifth book. Previous books include The Cost of Living (Other Voices, 2013), Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of my Life (Red Hen, 2010), More than they Could Chew (Dark Alley/Harper Collins, 2005) and Drive (Hollyridge Press, 2001). He is core faculty at UCR/Palm Desert's MFA in writing program and, he has taught at a number of other universities. He plays guitar and sings in LA's The Urinals.

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