Long players
Subtitle: a love story in eighteen songs
By: Peter Coviello
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780143132332
Subjects: Biography; Man-woman relationships; Men; Popular music fans
Other titles: Love story in eighteen songs
Description: A passionate, heartfelt story about the many ways we fall in love: with books, bands and records, friends and lovers, and the families we make. Have you ever fallen in love--exalting, wracking, hilarious love--with a song? Long Players is a book about that everyday kind of besottedness--and, also, about those other, more entangling sorts of love that songs can propel us into. We follow Peter Coviello through his happy marriage, his blindsiding divorce, and his fumbling post marital forays into sex and romance. Above all we travel with him as he calibrates, mix by mix and song by song, his place in the lives of two little girls, his suddenly ex-stepdaughters. In his grief, he considers what keeps us alive (sex, talk, dancing) and the limitless grace of pop songs.
Notes: "Sex, heartbreak, and the family you make"--Cover.

"A Penguin original"--Page [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: PART 1. HALF-AWAKE. Be still for a second; title: Find me; title: Easy; title: Big day coming; title: A letter on a lonesome day; title: PART 2. SEX, TALK, DANCING. The next person I meet; title: The drinks we drank last night; title: All the wine; title: On the mouth; title: The boom on Mizar-5; title: I kissed a girl; title: We are beautiful, we are doomed; title: PART 3. SILVER DAGGER. My tears were never enough; title: Something like distinctness; title: Katy Dear; title: If magic made it; title: Cruising and shooting and fucking; title: Midnight train.