Three Minutes on Love
by Roccie Hill
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Author: Roccie HillEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN: 1579621694
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: The Permanent Press
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Book Review: One great story!
Summary: 5 Stars
Three Minutes on Love is, more than anything, a wonderful twining of era and character. For a generation that grew up seeking to live life according to the lyrical refrain, it is a time-capsulization of all that was compelling and contradictory in its own coming of age. This was a generation of ingenuous flower children growing up within the protective and uncompromising cellulose of its rock music, seeking by means of a heady and often self-righteous idealism to offset the realities of a society entrenched in the bleak sordidness of war, racism, and apathy. It was a generation of naïve allure, and a time of ultimate unsustainability.
The narrator brings this era to life for us. She negotiates her way through its many contradictions with little more to assist her than a camera and her own watchful intelligence. Shrugging off the restrictive mantle of a typical heroine, she assumes instead a more fluid persona, one that allows her to both experience her life and observe it from a philosophical distance. She is possessed of rueful determination, an unpretentious desire to stare down those complexities of life that would overwhelm a character of lesser strength and tenacity. And yet she remains accessible and identifiable. She does not aspire to the role of an Everywoman for her generation but, by the very act of not aspiring, achieves it.
To different generations she might be characterized differently. The women of an earlier generation, the ones who took to the assembly lines when their men went overseas and who, by doing so, paid it forward for this generation of women, might well have approved this character as `quite a dame.' In today's vocabulary, Stephen Colbert would probably admire her for her `truthiness.' But for those of us who lived out the tumultuous transition from adolescence to adulthood against the backdrop of the 60s, she is someone personal and familiar, someone we would like to know over the course of the many decades to follow. We are, in a very special way, connected to her life story, and captivated by how she herself undertakes the task of unfolding it.
In every respect an exemplary first novel.
Summary of Three Minutes on Love
Rosie Kettle, quick and intuitive, leaves her small town in the California desert to attend art college in San Francisco in the late 60's, where she discovers a passion for photography and music. Through a chance meeting with a flamboyant Hungarian illegal immigrant who runs a local music newspaper, Rosie is offered her first job photographing a down-and out blues musician where she meets David Wilderspin, a young guitar sideman in the bluesman s band. Although he is only 19, David is already a survivor the estranged son of a violent, Russian choreographer, whose conflicted feelings for his father he must come to terms with.Only days after they meet, the bluesman hangs himself. This self-destructive act changes their lives forever. David, obsessed with music and determined to be successful, quickly turns to rock and roll. For Rosie, the picture she took that night jack-knifes her into a new career as one of the first women rock photographers in a male-dominated profession. It also introduces her to the chaotic, seductive life of the music industry.
Three Minutes on Love is a novel about artistic will and human redemption, set within the southern California music business of the late 20th Century, where men in suits happily aided young, talented musicians to self-destruct. Rosie's first person narrative is a rare love story played out on a stage of celebrity and power, as David and Rosie fight their way through the destructive excess of the burgeoning rock music world, and eventually, through one of the greatest tragedies imaginable.
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