Book description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 WELLCOME TRUST BOOK PRIZE
How do you lose music? Then having lost it, what do you do next?
Nick Coleman found out the morning he woke up to a world changed
forever by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Loss.
The Train in the Night is an account of one man's struggle to
recover from the loss of his greatest passion - and go one further
than that: to restore his ability not only to hear but to think about
and feel music, by going back to the series of big bangs which kicked
off his musical universe.
The result a memoir not quite like any other. It is about growing
up, about taste and love and suffering and delusion and longing to be
Keith Richards. It is funny, heartbreaking and, above all, true.
Nick Coleman was born in Buckinghamshire in 1960 but grew up in the
Fens. Following a brief spell as a stringer at
NME
in the mid-1980s, he was Music Editor of
Time Out
magazine for seven years. This was followed by a dozen years as Arts
and Features Editors at the
Independent
and
Independent on Sunday
. He has also written for
The Times
, the
Guardian
, the
Daily Telegraph
,
New Statesman
,
US Vogue
,
Intelligent Life
,
GQ
and
The Wire
- mostly about music but also books, sport and travel. He lives in
Hackney with his wife and two children.
