Bait Dog Boy
A Memoir
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Bait Dog Boy
Narrated by:
Henry Rollins
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Narrated by:
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Henry Rollins
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By:
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Henry Rollins
What happens when a child grows up in an almost total vacuum of love? That was the reality for Henry Rollins, pioneering punk frontman of the seminal groups Black Flag and Rollins Band, who came of age in an environment seemingly determined to break him. For the first time, Rollins tells the story he spent most of his life trying to avoid, taking us through his childhood and adolescence—from a volatile Washington, D.C., childhood spent shuffling between indifferent parents, to his encounters with a seemingly endless parade of abusive adults, to his eventual meeting with Ian MacKaye, and their ultimate discovery of punk rock, which would become a lifeline. Rollins tells what it was like to live a life colored by the experience of constantly absorbing pain, like a bait dog.
“I have no desire to be a survivor,” Rollins writes. “I’d rather accept, absorb, adapt, fight and break that which seeks to break me—to be that which remains.”
Told in Rollins’ unmistakably blunt, brutal, and acerbic voice, Bait Dog Boy is a coming-of-age story with the teeth and truth of a great punk anthem. It’s an unforgettable tale of what it means to not quite fit in anywhere, except on stage: A memoir as dynamic and singular as its subject.
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Reviews
“Rollins writes with crystal clarity and ruthlessly avoids self-pity, even in describing his most painful moments. ‘I’ve become completely owned by gratitude,’ he writes near the book’s end. Fans of Rollins will gain a deeper understanding of how he drew upon the negative examples in his life to become an artist known for his integrity, generosity, and peerless work ethic.”—Booklist, starred review
“So constitutionally averse is [Rollins] to embracing the victim narrative that in his preface he offers, ‘In writing this book, I see that, at every turn, I could have conducted myself differently. . . . I lacked the guts and ability to think critically and got what was coming to me.’ That’s himself as a child he’s talking about, and it’s what makes this plainspoken memoir something not typically associated with Rollins: heartbreaking. . . . Those previously familiar with Rollins’ fearsome persona will leave this devastating memoir saying, ‘So that explains it.’”—Kirkus Reviews
“So constitutionally averse is [Rollins] to embracing the victim narrative that in his preface he offers, ‘In writing this book, I see that, at every turn, I could have conducted myself differently. . . . I lacked the guts and ability to think critically and got what was coming to me.’ That’s himself as a child he’s talking about, and it’s what makes this plainspoken memoir something not typically associated with Rollins: heartbreaking. . . . Those previously familiar with Rollins’ fearsome persona will leave this devastating memoir saying, ‘So that explains it.’”—Kirkus Reviews
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