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Title: Wonderland

Author: Stacey D'Erasmo

Narrator: Xe Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-14

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Anna Brundage is a rock star. She is tall and sexy, with a powerhouse voice and an unforgettable mane of red hair. She came out of nowhere, an immediate indie sensation. And then, life happened.

Anna went down as fast as she went up and then walked off the scene for seven years. Without a record deal or clamoring fans, she sells a piece of her famous father's art to finance just one more album and a European comeback tour.

Anna is 44. This may be her last chance to cement her place in the life she chose, the life she struggled for, the life she's not sure she can sustain. She falls back easily into the ways of the road - sex with strangers, the search for the perfect moment onstage. To see Anna perform is something - watch her find the note, the electric connection with the audience, the transcendence when it all comes together and the music seems to fill the world.

A riveting look at the life of a musician, Wonderlandis a moving inquiry into the life of a woman on an unconventional path, wondering what happens next and what her passions might have cost her, seeking a version of herself she might recognize. It takes us deep into a world many of us have spent hours imagining and wishing ourselves into. Now we have a bit of that wish come true.

Members Reviews:

I Know It's Only Rock and Roll.

A very convincing on the road story. Having always had an interest in the back stairwells of Rock, I found this represented what I've always heard about tours; sex and drugs are mostly an attempt to override the loneliness and boredom of the road. The characters were written deftly and I found myself able to picture them with stand ins from the music world. The severe ups and downs of the music business were well illustrated. Anyone who has dreamed of being a rock star should probably consider this book, but middle aged women who are finding themselves aged out of the world they considered their own will relate.

Four Stars

A rather good read. Not great.

Wonder less

This novel attempts to describe what a music tour feels like from the perspective of the musicians involved. The problem with this approach however is that the dialogues have little to say about the music itself.The result is a predictable plot that merely stereotypes rockers as sex symbols and drug addicts.

Pure poetry

The gist of the negative criticism about this book, including the review by Lionel Shriver, appears to me to be an expectation for a more traditional linear path with a recognizable climax and/or resolution. I felt no wish for this and was much more moved by its poetic structure. The lyricism was amplified by the juxtapositions and the unpredictable time movements. Isn't this how the mind works? I loved the dark interiority and the emotional drift. There is a leitmotif of absences and gaps and inability to connect along with a reverence for the unobtainable dark beauty that resides therein. I don't understand criticism that demands that writing turn a way it was never meant to go and supposes that a better book would have been written.

too many

non sequiturs for my taste. While you get an inside look at what it's like to tour with a band, Anna's habit of blurring present, past and future events is confusing as well as unsettling