Review
"Shelve it in music or shelve it in fiction, but expect Palmer's oddly literary fans to come looking for it"--Booklist
"A postmodern Russian nesting doll of realities, complete with poems, charts, and censored text, this book is successful on many levels: creepy and fun when accepted at face value; tantalizing when looked at as evidence in a murder mystery; insightful in its commentary on modern celebrity and culture--in all coy, engaging, and delightfully imagined."--Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review
"Through a fascinating series of essays, stories, fairy tales, poems, introductions and appendices Kriwaczek explores issues of authorship, celebrity, popular culture, marketing strategies and the culminating steady corruption of art in contemporary culture, all in a wildly exuberant, imaginative and entertaining manner. Another sure fire winner from the author of An Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violin."--The Guild of Funerary Violinists Quarterly Newsletter
"An extended exercise in urban legend... a fascinating experiment... If you're an Amanda Palmer fan, hungry for something wonderfully strange, or just love it when shit gets meta, this book's worth puzzling over."--Boston's Weekly Dig
"Strange and clever... bizarre, gothic and fanciful... Kriwaczek does an admirable job of taking the traditional book in new directions... For every faux scientific conclusion, some of which can be quite funny, Kriwaczek still manages some inspired thinking about real issues like the slippery nature of the Internet and relationships between artists and their fans."--Flagpole
"Twisted up in reality, experience, and fantasy. The book is a series of lies that manage to convey a remarkable and truthful insight into how we view death and how we canonize celebrities and how we often confuse presentation with fact... It's an intriguing and mysterious book"--The Odd Orchard Blog
About the Author
Rohan Kriwaczek is a composer, writer and musician. He has written numerous scores for TV, film and radio.
