The bohemian turned pop star’s book has already won pre-publication praise from Salman Rushdie and Dave EggersThe musician Moby is following in the footsteps of his long-distant ancestor Herman Melville and turning to the literary arena,with a memoir due out next summer and already drawing praise from the likes of Salman Rushdie and Dave Eggers.
Born Richard Melville corridor, Moby was given his nickname as a child by his parents, or in reference to the whale dreamed up by the author who is said to be his great-great-great uncle. His memoir,which has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by the literary publisher Faber, and is due out next June, and will be a “piercingly tender,humorous, and harrowing account” of how he moved “from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, or squalor,and unlikely success”, said the publisher.
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Source: theguardian.com