The farewell tour : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0063251132 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780063251137 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
339 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
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Subject: | Sisters Fiction Music trade Fiction Concert tours Fiction Women country musicians Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
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Erlanger Branch | CLIFF S (Text) | 33126025072293 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Independence Branch | CLIFF S (Text) | 33126025072301 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
In 1980, country music singer Lillian Waters hits the road for her nationwide farewell tour, during which she recalls the hard choices sheâs made and how they shaped her life, and when she reaches her last stop, she finally confronts a betrayal from her past to move forward. 100,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
"It's 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time. Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems, Lillian cobbles together a nationwide farewell tour featuring some old hands from her early days playing honky-tonk bars in Washington State and Nashville, plus a few new ones. She yearns to feel the rush of making live music one more time and bask in the glow of a packed house before she makes the last, and most important, stop on the tour: the farm she left behind at age ten and the sister she is finally ready to confront about an agonizing betrayal in their childhood"-- - HARPERCOLL
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody Rise, a âshimmeringâ (New York Times Book Review) novel with the exquisite historical detail and evocative settings of The Cold Millions and Great Circle that tells the story of one unforgettable womanâs rise in country and western music.
Itâs 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time.
Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems, Lillian cobbles together a nationwide farewell tour featuring some old hands from her early days playing honky-tonk bars in Washington State and Nashville, plus a few new ones. She yearns to feel the rush of making live music one more time and bask in the glow of a packed house before she makes the last, and most important, stop on the tour: the farm she left behind at age ten and the sister she is finally ready to confront about an agonizing betrayal in their childhood.
As the novel crisscrosses eras, moving between Lillianâs youthâthe Depression, the Second World War, the rise of Nashvilleâand her middle-aged life in 1980, we see her striving to build a career in the male-dominated world of country music, including the hard choices she makes as she tries to redefine music, love, aging, and womanhood on her own terms.
Nearing her final tour stop, Lil is forced to confront those choices and how they shaped her life. Would a different version of herself have found the happiness and success that has eluded her? When she reaches her Washington hometown for her very last show, though, sheâll undergo a reckoning with the past that forces her to reconsider her entire life story.
Exploring one unforgettable womanâs creativity, ambition, and sacrifices in a worldâand an art formâmade for men, The Farewell Tour asks us to consider how much of our past we can ever leave behind.