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  • Always Crashing in the Same Car

  • A Novel After David Bowie
  • By: Lance Olsen
  • Narrated by: Liam Price
  • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins

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Always Crashing in the Same Car

By: Lance Olsen
Narrated by: Liam Price
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Summary

A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie's last days

An intricate collage-novel fusing and confusing fact and imagination, Always Crashing in the Same Car is a prismatic exploration of David Bowie through multiple voices and perspectives—the protean musician himself, an academic trying to compose a critical monograph about him, friends, lovers, musicologists, and others in Bowie's orbit.

At its core beat questions about how we read others, how we are read by them, how (if at all) we can tell the past with something even close to accuracy, what it feels like being the opposite of young and still committed to bracing, volatile innovation.

Set during Bowie's last months—those during which he worked on his acclaimed final album Black Star while battling liver cancer and the consequences of a sixth heart attack—yet washing back and forth across his exhilarating, kaleidoscopically costumed life, Always Crashing in the Same Car enacts a poetics of impermanence, of art, of love, of truth, even of death, that apparently most permanent of conditions.

©2023 Lance Olsen (P)2023 Tantor

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