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Here Goes Nothing

A Novel

September 29, 2020 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781770414433
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Description

Named a Fall 2020 Best Indie Read by the Globe and Mail

From Eamon McGrath, award-winning musician and author of the widely acclaimed Berlin-Warszawa Express, comes a smart and gritty novel that explores the lives of touring musicians

Here Goes Nothing, Eamon McGrath's brave second offering and follow-up to 2017's widely acclaimed Berlin-Warszawa Express, once again explores the world of touring musicians -- but this time McGrath expands his scope and perspective from the inner dialogue of a traveling songwriter into the wider range of a multi-member touring band.

Told in two interwoven narratives that blur the lines between past and present, Here Goes Nothing explores the complex relationships that are both created and destroyed by the perpetual-motion engine that is the touring van.

From confessional tales of saving friends and oneself from drowning in polluted lakes in Michigan to legendary liver-wrecking nights of excess and debauchery in Lisbon, McGrath comments on the corrupt and selfish music industry and the toll it takes on musicians as they blindly chase success. Here Goes Nothing is a gutsy story of how life on the road can bring a band together -- or tear them wildly apart.

About this Author

Seven full-length records, multiple continent-spanning tours, and a critically acclaimed work of fiction lay in the wake of 31-year-old Eamon McGrath, whose fierce attitude and work ethic has led him to develop a career that could rival anyone 20 years his senior. He is based in Toronto, Ontario.

ISBN: 9781770414433
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 112
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2020-09-29

Reviews

"Eamon McGrath's life-on-the-road novel, Here Goes Nothing (ECW) describes the euphoria and masochism that fuels the band on tour" -- Globe and Mail

"Tales from the tour van are never bad if the band is good. Here Goes Nothing took me on a journey back to being young, and out lost somewhere in the beauty of the gnarl. The road. I needed to read this book much more than I thought. It's the powerful prose with beer still on its breath that makes it incredibly impactful and real." -- Matt Mays, Juno Award-winning songwriter

"Here Goes Nothing is a dizzying ode to the allure and the disillusionment of life on the road. In his second book, McGrath smashes open a decade's worth of bottled emotions. The grudges are toxic and the hangovers are abysmal but his vulnerable moments of clarity are worth the endured chaos." -- Leah Fay Goldstein, July Talk

"In his latest novel, Here Goes Nothing, Eamon McGrath is doomed to relive the same scenarios over and over again. It's much like the movie Groundhog Day, except that in McGrath's case the musician and author is pulling inspiration from real-life touring adventures." -- Tom Murray, Edmonton Journal

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