Description
Author: Bono
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01/11/2022
Imprint: HUTCHINSON
ISBN: 9781529151787
‘When I started to write this book I was hoping to draw in detail what I’d previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim’s lack of progress … With a fair amount of fun along the way.’ – Bono
As one of the music world’s most iconic artists and the cofounder of organizations ONE and (RED), Bono’s career has been written about extensively. But in Surrender, it’s Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has shared it with. In his unique voice, Bono takes us from his early days growing up in Dublin, including the sudden loss of his mother when he was 14, to U2’s unlikely journey to become one of the world’s most influential rock bands, to his more than 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty. Writing with candour, self-reflection, and humour, Bono opens the aperture on his life – and the family, friends and faith that have sustained, challenged and shaped him.
Surrender’s subtitle, \”40 Songs, One Story,\” is a nod to the book’s 40 chapters, which are each named after a U2 song. Bono has also created 40 original drawings for Surrender which will appear throughout the book.
Hedley’s Books –
Bono, born Paul Hewson in Dublin to a Protestant mother and Catholic father, is best known for fronting the band U2, for a time the biggest band in the world. This, his first book, details the band’s musical journey, plus Bono’s owning up to anger issues and problems with his father, his strong faith and, most of all, his enduring love and respect for his wife, Ali. His activist role at times took over the music as he rubbed shoulders with presidents and business giants in his fight against poverty. Lyrics to 40 songs pepper the very well-written story. – Steve