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Tears of the Patriarch
Heading into early middle-age as a rockstar and acid house diva is a troubling business, fraught with hazards - most of them of your own making, certainly avoidable. Pushing 40, still wearing a soiled nappy on stage - albeit at Paris Fashion Week - the second book from bestselling author Lias Saoudi represents a reckoning with ageing (dis)gracefully, the hazards and vulnerabilities of life on the road with various reprobates and, most importantly, the rite of passage that is becoming a father.
How to reconcile rock 'n' roll performance art with the arrival of your first born? What does it mean to be a man growing up as one of three brothers of Algerian descent in a 21st century Britain that is increasingly fractured and riven with identity politics and then become father to a beautiful daughter after a life lived with reckless hedonism?With unsparing humour and self-lacerating honesty, Tears of the Patriarch takes a machete to the culture wars and rearranges the pieces with the stylish swagger of a man on the edge of either implosion or revelation as his eternal adolescence enters its final furlong.
From an occult ritual on a remote Irish beach with the darkest of consequences to a spell in the Algerian clink when a satirical Fat Whites promo video goes wrong, this is a book that only Lias Saoudi could write: profane, profound, daring and unforgiving - mostly of himself, but most certainly - also - of the hollow world we have created where speaking truth to power has become a pathetic Instagram meme and the word masculinity is rarely spoken of without the prefix 'toxic'?
How to reconcile rock 'n' roll performance art with the arrival of your first born? What does it mean to be a man growing up as one of three brothers of Algerian descent in a 21st century Britain that is increasingly fractured and riven with identity politics and then become father to a beautiful daughter after a life lived with reckless hedonism?With unsparing humour and self-lacerating honesty, Tears of the Patriarch takes a machete to the culture wars and rearranges the pieces with the stylish swagger of a man on the edge of either implosion or revelation as his eternal adolescence enters its final furlong.
From an occult ritual on a remote Irish beach with the darkest of consequences to a spell in the Algerian clink when a satirical Fat Whites promo video goes wrong, this is a book that only Lias Saoudi could write: profane, profound, daring and unforgiving - mostly of himself, but most certainly - also - of the hollow world we have created where speaking truth to power has become a pathetic Instagram meme and the word masculinity is rarely spoken of without the prefix 'toxic'?
Les livres de Lias Saoudi
Tears of the Patriarch
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