Mixing the skilful, tragic punch of Dave Eggers and the romantic honesty of Nick Hornby, LOVE IS A MIX TAPE is a story of lost love and the kick-you-in-the-gut energy of great pop music. Love is a Mix Tape is the happiest, saddest, greatest book about rocknroll that Ive ever experienced.' -Chuck Klosterman, bestselling author of Fargo Rock Cty, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Killing Yourself to Live and Chuck Klosterman IV 'This is a lightly-handed, skillful and sincere celebration of pop, of love, sad songs, bad songs and. In this stunning memoir, Rob Sheffield, a veteran rock and pop culture critic and staff. The tunes were among the great musical output of the early 1990s - Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Pavement, Yo La Tengo, REM, Weezer - as well as classics by The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin and more. His feelings show through the window of the mix tapes they compiled. And it was music that would help Rob through a sudden, unfathomable loss. The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock n roll that Ive ever. There are mixes to court each other, mixes for road trips, mixes for doing the dishes, mixes for sleeping - and, eventually, mixes to mourn Rob's greatest loss. Music brought them together and kept them together. Buy a cheap copy of Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One. Rob and Renee's life together - they wed after graduate school, both became music journalists, and were married only five years when Renee died suddenly on Mother's Day, 1997 - is shared through the window of the mix tapes they obsessively compiled.
In this stunning memoir, Rob Sheffield, a veteran rock and pop culture critic and staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine, tells the story of his musical coming of age, and how rock music, the first love of his life, led him to his second, a girl named Renee.
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