The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll

"Hilarious, harrowing, and ultimately inspiring.... Truly, there is something arresting and wonderful on every page."
-- Michael Pollan

"With sentences that sometimes astonish" (Matthew Crawford, author of Shop Class as Soulcraft), celebrated cultural critic Mark Edmundson has written a hip and hilarious coming-of-age memoir about one man's miscues and false starts as he enters the world after college. Through exhilarating adventures, he attempts to answer the timeless question of who he is, while contemplating what role music, love, work, drugs, money, and books will play in his life.

Author: Mark Edmundson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 05/10/2011
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780061713491

About the Author
Edmundson, Mark: -

Mark Edmundson is a professor at the University of Virginia and the prizewinning author of numerous works of cultural criticism, including Why Read?; Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida; and Teacher. He lives in Batesville, Virginia.