BRUCE by Peter Ames Carlin (epub)(Nonfiction)

BRUCE by Peter Ames Carlin (epub)(Nonfiction)
Author: Peter Ames Carlin
Full title: Bruce
Length: approximately 512 pages
Release date: October 30, 2012
Genre/Categories: Nonfiction; Biography; Music; Rock & roll

This comprehensive biography chronicles Bruce Springsteen’s life from his working‑class childhood in Freehold, New Jersey, through his meteoric rise with Born to Run (1975), decades of global stardom, and into the early 2010s, written with unprecedented cooperation from Springsteen himself. Carlin draws on interviews with family, bandmates, producers, and Springsteen to explore his Catholic upbringing, obsessive perfectionism, turbulent relationships (including with his father and wives), the E Street Band’s dynamics, and the creative process behind iconic albums like Darkness on the Edge of Town and Born in the U.S.A.. Neither hagiography nor hatchet job, it portrays Springsteen as a complex, often contradictory figure driven by self‑doubt, a tireless work ethic, and a mission to voice the struggles of ordinary Americans.