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Reaching for the Moon: A Memoir

Reaching for the Moon: A Memoir


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About the Book

Reaching for the Moon is an honest portrayal of singer-pianist Mark Carroll's lifelong journey navigating the allures and pitfalls of the entertainment industry during the heyday of club singers like Peggy Lee and Jeri Southern. Carroll's life has been on the stage, with a backdrop of starlets, where his musical talents fit right in. After growing up and out of Little Rock, Arkansas rather quickly, Carroll spent his life playing gigs everywhere from Dallas to Las Vegas to Chicago. Carroll recounts his experiences as a gay man honing his musical talents under the club lights, navigating the angels and demons of showbiz, and growing into the esteemed performer he is known as today. While fraught with battles against the lifestyle of the rich and famous, homosexual stigmas, and alcoholism, Reaching for the Moon is also a story filled with the light of a born entertainer who has healed and forgiven the world for its trespasses against him.

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"Mark's journey through life and music had me vora-ciously turning pages! I'm so happy that he has set these fantastic stories down for everyone to know about." --John McDaniel, Grammy & Emmy award winner "Mark Carroll's book, like his elegant music, is a wonder of wit, sophistication and heartwarming candor. Best of all, it pulsates with that firm but gentle swing that makes Mark a master storyteller." --David Ritz "Mark Carroll's life story is a journey paved with fascinating people, heartwarming humor, poignant moments, and incredible adventures insightfully told. Reaching for the Moon will keep you reaching to turn the pages." --Jill K. Sayre, Author of The Fairies of Turtle Creek "Unlike most irrelevant and overwritten memoirs, the book Singer-Pianist Mark Carroll has written about his life is just plain perfect--honest, unpretentious, laugh-out-loud funny, and unexpectedly inspiring. When the crown prince of the Texas music scene drops names, their names are worth dropping. When he reveals personal intimacies about his private life with a refreshing lack of melodrama, he makes you want to know more. From his poignant memories of a turbulent childhood in Little Rock, to his colorful experiences in the Hollywood center spot with legends like Rock Hudson and the brilliant, eccentric and mystifying Peggy Lee, to less legendary but equally fascinating talents like Jeri Southern and Portia Nelson, he's written a breezy intelligent page-turner that, like a dripping novel in bed on a restless night, I devoured in one sitting. After eight decades of ups and downs, triumphs and thuds, he shares his passions for music, song lyrics, people collecting and love with a delightful candor that prunes away the clutter and keeps you glued to the page. As Bart Howard wrote in the verse to "Fly Me to the Moon," "Poets often use many words to say a simple thing." But it only takes two words to best describe this book--TOTALLY MESMERIZING!" --Rex Reed, An American film critic and former co-host of the syndicated television show At the Movies. He currently writes the column "On the Town with Rex Reed" for The New York Observer.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780692863022
  • Publisher: Mark Carroll
  • Publisher Imprint: Mark Carroll
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 242
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 445 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0692863028
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Memoir
  • Width: 140 mm


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