Robert Dean Lurie is a writer and musician. He received a Master of fine arts degree in creative writing from the University of North Carolina and currently lives in Phoenix. No Certainty Attached is his first book.
Publishers Weekly, July 2009
Although a self-professed die-hard fan, Lurie remains stridently
impartial in this skillfully balanced assessment of his musical
idol, Steve Kilbey, the esoterically minded front man for the
Australian rock band the Church. Into his noisy myriad of
interviews with Kilbey and his circle, Lurie mixes his own personal
journey as a fan, musician and first-time author, offering
something to both Church devotees and the uninitiated. The result
is a quietly and thoughtfully structured narrative that entertains
as well as informs. Lurie provides sound musical analysis of the
Church's touchstone albums as well as key Kilbey solo projects. Yet
Lurie can also be too much the music critic, as his musical
observations occasionally drag the narrative into pedantry. Rather
than focusing exclusively on those elements of the biography that
are fantastic or controversial, Lurie's interviews capture quite a
bit of Kilbey's daily life, past and present, and in so doing, open
doors to readers who might otherwise not have an interest in a
musician with whose music they may only feign familiarity. The nice
assemblage of personal photographs printed throughout the text adds
an authenticity and completeness to the book.
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