Initially, I was apprehensive about the writing style - it’s written like a documentary film transcript, which I thought might be jarring - but I didn’t even notice as I become fully engrossed in the characters and how their sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll lives weaved together. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.ĭaisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.Īlso getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. REESE’S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK 2019ĭaisy is a girl coming of age in L.A.TITLE: DAISY JONES & THE SIX AUTHOR: TAYLOR JENKINS REID PUBLISHER: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GENRE: WOMEN’S FICTION | LITERARY FICTION ACCOLADES:
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |