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Peter West is amazingly well-adjusted for somebody in his position: castrated at the age of nine in the Summer of Love and raised by the "normal" member of a family of eccentrics and circus people. In this slice-of-life narrative of a castrato singer in the late Twentieth Century, the concepts of identity, masculinity, love, and adults still growing up are addressed in a series of vignettes, diary entries, interviews, and direct communication with divinity. An unusual story of an unusual man that is occasionally interrupted with internal monologues about the timelessness of music and how true art changes through our life experiences and the creator's emotional and spiritual growth.Simple Man has been called "engrossing" and "original" by beta-readers and readers of McElroy's blog often regard his writing style as "lively and funny" and "endearing despite himself".… (altro)
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I don't remember how that day began for me. Hell, I have spotty memory of anything at all that happened before that day. Kind of sucks, when I think about it a lot.
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"One word, Peter--" "If you say 'plastics', I'm going to wring your fucking neck" / "But I don't wanna drive to Detroit. Why can't anything bad ever happen to our friends here?" / Born on a kitchen floor in Venice Beach, California, Peter West is no stranger to the spotlight. / I finally got around to reading Anne Rice's _Cry To Heaven_ in the last week and I have to say, that has got to be the most pretentious piece of crap I've ever cracked the spine on.
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Nevertheless, at the end of the day, when all is said and done, Peter West got everything he wanted.
Peter West is amazingly well-adjusted for somebody in his position: castrated at the age of nine in the Summer of Love and raised by the "normal" member of a family of eccentrics and circus people. In this slice-of-life narrative of a castrato singer in the late Twentieth Century, the concepts of identity, masculinity, love, and adults still growing up are addressed in a series of vignettes, diary entries, interviews, and direct communication with divinity. An unusual story of an unusual man that is occasionally interrupted with internal monologues about the timelessness of music and how true art changes through our life experiences and the creator's emotional and spiritual growth.Simple Man has been called "engrossing" and "original" by beta-readers and readers of McElroy's blog often regard his writing style as "lively and funny" and "endearing despite himself".