Daddy Was a Punk Rocker by Adam Sharp
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I was drawn to read this to learn about the post-punk life of Colin Sharp, briefly of Durutti Column. Of course, that was long past by and during the author's life. It was even further removed as Adam was so distant from both parents, at times in the antipodal sense, that he refers to both by their first names. That is part of his father's life he cannot access or participate in, except in his imagination. Globe-trotting and constantly re-creating himself, the plucky Adam Sharp proves a survivor, his own worst enemy, ringside spectator to world class family dysfunction, and, after all, an adept writer. He strings together his book's sections with pot boiler cliffhangers.
Good job, Adam!
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