The revelatory and wildly bestselling memoir by legendary rock star
Bruce Springsteen: "Glorious...a philosophically rich ramble through a
rock 'n roll life...It's the lyric he was born to write" (USA TODAY, 4
out of 4 stars).
Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted
himself to writing the story of his life. The result is "an utterly
unique, endlessly exhilarating, last-chance-power-drive of a memoir"
(Rolling Stone) that offers the same honesty, humor, and originality
found in his songs.
He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the
poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to
the moment he refers to as "The Big Bang" seeing Elvis Presley's debut
on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to
become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and
the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for
the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his
best work.
Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep.
Like many of his songs ("Thunder Road," "Badlands," "Darkness on the
Edge of Town," "The River" "Born in the U.S.A," "The Rising," and "The
Ghost of Tom Joad," to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen's
autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and
the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.
"Both an entertaining account of Springsteen's marathon race to the top
and a reminder that the one thing you can't run away from is yourself"
(Entertainment Weekly), Born to Run is much more than a legendary
rock star's memoir. This book is a "a virtuoso performance, the 508-page
equivalent to one of Springsteen and the E Street Band's famous
four-hour concerts: Nothing is left onstage, and diehard fans and
first-timers alike depart for home sated and yet somehow already aching
for more" (NPR).
