A biography that doesn’t quite exist, about a violinist who can’t be found, as told by people who don’t agree on much.
Novelist Geoff Berner has been tasked with writing a biography of DD, a mysterious, charismatic, chimerical musician who has, it seems, dropped off the face of the earth. In the course of his search for DD, Berner interviews her friends, ex-bandmates, ex-lovers, and others. They paint such variable portraits of her that each successive attempt to describe her casts doubt on the previous testimony. As his project is taken over by the lively, infuriating, entertaining tales, a wounded, gifted, and complex DD starts to emerge from all the eyewitness accounts and swear-to-God true stories.
Who is DD? Where did she go? And why didn’t that book get written? Travel through a world of knockabout musicians and chancers, on the trail of an inimitable artist who truly lives in the moment, for better or worse.
Novelist Geoff Berner has been tasked with writing a biography of DD, a mysterious, charismatic, chimerical musician who has, it seems, dropped off the face of the earth. In the course of his search for DD, Berner interviews her friends, ex-bandmates, ex-lovers, and others. They paint such variable portraits of her that each successive attempt to describe her casts doubt on the previous testimony. As his project is taken over by the lively, infuriating, entertaining tales, a wounded, gifted, and complex DD starts to emerge from all the eyewitness accounts and swear-to-God true stories.
Who is DD? Where did she go? And why didn’t that book get written? Travel through a world of knockabout musicians and chancers, on the trail of an inimitable artist who truly lives in the moment, for better or worse.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2018.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781459737099 9781459737082
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.B47647
- LCCN Item number
- F53 2017eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (227 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00238283 (OCoLC)980364498 (CaOOCEL)477651
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- Important Introductory Note 8
- Campbell Ouiniette 12
- Amy Williams 17
- Jasmine McKittrik 22
- Mykola Loychuck 25
- Pete Podey 31
- Jasmine McKittrik 36
- Name Withheld 41
- Amy Williams 44
- Jasmine McKittrik 48
- Amy Williams 50
- Miruna Molnar 56
- Carla Patterson 59
- Name Withheld 66
- Mykola Loychuck 70
- Amy Williams 73
- Giulietta Caetano 76
- Name Withheld 79
- Mykola Loychuck 83
- Name Withheld 87
- Pete Podey 91
- Mykola Loychuck 94
- Carla Patterson 97
- Pete Podey 100
- Giulietta Caetano 106
- Tom Abbott 115
- Giulietta Caetano 122
- Tom Abbott 124
- Giulietta Caetano 126
- Tom Abbott 129
- Giulietta Caetano 132
- Tom Abbott 135
- Giulietta Caetano 137
- Tom Abbott 139
- Giulietta Caetano 144
- Amy Williams 150
- Mykola Loychuck 163
- Amy Williams 172
- Mykola Loychuck 175
- Lila Austin 179
- Amy Williams 181
- Miruna Molnar 185
- Anonymous 187
- Mykola Loychuck 189
- Kris Hauser 194
- Tom Abbott 196
- Giulietta Caetano 199
- Mykola Loychuck 201
- Lila Austin 207
- Miruna Molnar 210
- Melanie Schiff 217
- Epilogue 221
- Acknowledgements 228
