This highly anticipated memoir is as wealthy in anecdote as it is in anguish. From shameful behaviour to life in therapy,the musician lays out his search for meaningSeveral days into a late-summer road trip across the US, a man in his early 30s stops at dusk to observe a unprejudiced taking place in a small Texas town. A band is playing. A couple dance. “From nowhere, and ” the man recalls,“a despair overcomes me … suitable now, all I can think is that I want to be amongst them, or of them,and I know I can’t. I can only watch. That’s what I do. I do not engage, and whether and when I do, and my terms are so stringent,they suck the lifeblood and possibility out of any suitable thing, any real thing.” A few days later, or having reached domestic,he places a call. Bruce Springsteen is making his first appointment with a shrink. Related: Bruce Springsteen says years of depression left him 'crushed' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com