Bøger udgivet af Oyster Point Press

After learning of a large inheritance, Todd moves his wife, small child, and adolescent stepdaughter, Alice, from their cramped SOHO apartment to the wisteria-draped Georgian town of Congreve. The heir to a small-town banking fortune, Todd knows all too well the dangerous snare of greed, but the promise of the good life is too much for the struggling artist to resist. However, when the pressures of an industry he doesn't understand become too much for him to bear, he finds comfort in liquid escape. Barely thirteen, Alice does her best to understand the dark flashes of violence creeping into her new life. She tries to ignore her new Aunt who only has eyes for younger half sister, and keeps a watchful eye on her troubled cousin, but the dark secret hidden behind the gabbled upstairs window of the Broderick mansion is about to set fire to her once-fairytale existence. In Athena Alexis' southern gothic tale of greed, incest, and murder, money may be the root of all evil, but truth is the greatest sin of all.

The Swing Movement -- all jazz hands and high-waisted pants -- advanced and receded in good order. I wrote this book to tell the other side of the story. I want you to know about the oddball collection of iconoclasts who got together and made the Squirrel Nut Zippers what they were: a combustible, improbable gumbo of joy and menace. Along the way, I write about our many influences: jazz and blues and hot music and calypso and, yes, swing. Come run these fields, like rabbits, while the harvest moon hangs caught in the branches. Come linger over this snapshot. "e;[An] utterly engaging memoir.... A must-read for anyone with even the remotest interest in how the music biz works.... A short, sharp, sweet shock of a read.... Both Maxwell's pinch-me moments and his creeping sense of dread are visceral and believable enough to land the reader right there in the middle bunk of the Zippers' tour bus. And if that reader also happens to be an aspiring musician, the message here couldn't be clearer: enjoy the ride, but be careful what you wish for."e; -BLURT Magazine "e;Impressive.... [The] book digs into the band's early years in the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, music scene, via intimate stories, and the band discovering and incorporating sounds and influences that may have seemed unusual to mainstream audiences, but were simply the result of young, adventurous musicians getting turned on to great music."e; - Esquire"e;Tom Maxwell & The Minor Drag are planning a fall tour in support of both the album and book.... Plan to listen and read."e; -Artist Direct