I swear I'll make it up to you : a life on the low road / Mishka Shubaly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shubaly, Mishka, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shubaly, Mishka.

Rock musicians--United States--Biography.

Rock musicians.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

334 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : PublicAffairs, 2016.

Summary:

"I Swear I'll Make It Up to You is Mishka Shubaly's apology for choices he wasn't sure he'd live long enough to regret. It is a story of drinking, women, punk rock, and a journey so far down the low road that it took Shubaly years of running to come back. A misfit kid in the best of times, Shubaly had his world shattered when, in a 24-hour span in 1992, he survived a mass shooting on his school's campus, then learned that his parents were getting divorced. After the departure of his father, a decorated rocket scientist, his remaining family soon lost their house. In his first act to avenge the wrongs against his mother, Shubaly plunged into a 17-year love affair with alcohol. In this fiercely honest, emotional, and darkly witty book, Shubaly relives the best and worst of these adventures: the disastrous events that fractured his life; his imaginatively destructive romances; his hot-and-cold career as a rock musician; his travels across the country in search of meaning, drugs, and his family; and the time he met his newborn nephew while tripping on cough syrup. I Swear I'll Make It Up to You is a memoir of a precocious young man trying to be good and failing (and failing, and failing)-until, one day, he succeeds. Taking a cab home one night after a bar fight, Shubaly decides to run five miles the next morning to retrieve his bike. Thus begins a new, much healthier love affair with running, and eventually a new life. And when Shubaly finally reunites with his distant father, he discovers the story of his childhood was radically different from what he'd imagined. Shubaly's muscular prose, big heart, and sharp humor inflect this grand story of mistakes, their consequences, and eventual redemption."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Sucker Punch 5

Chapter 2 Chemical Youth 19

Chapter 3 Working-Class Zero 59

Chapter 4 The Potato Peelings in the Sink Did Not Turn into Vodka as I Had Hoped 83

Chapter 5 The Graveyard of Dreams 109

Chapter 6 Are We Going to Be Judged on These Lonely Deeds? 127

Chapter 7 The End of the End 165

Chapter 8 Breaking the Beast 195

Chapter 9 Congratulations, You've Rejoined the Human Race 215

Chapter 10 Longest Day 235

Chapter 11 Darkest Night 269

Chapter 12 The New Life 309.

ISBN:

9781610395588

1610395581

OCLC:

927141294

Publisher Number:

99966902517