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Exceptional, Nov. 18 2003
This is brilliant. For the first time, Joy Division fans are given an insight not only into Ian Curtis, the mysterious captivating frontman of a band, but also Ian as the person; the family man, the human being.This isn't (as other reviews might suggest) the memoir of a bitter and resentful wife, desperately wanting a small piece of the limelight that her husband so coldly denied her. She gives credit where it is due. She continually refers to Ian's 'caring and generous' side, the love she felt for him before and during their marriage, and how lost she felt when her love eventually wasn't returned. The reader is taken on a journey through the life of Deborah Curtis after she met Ian, how she was made to feel at the different stages, what it felt like to be caught in the trappings of mundane 'everyday' life as her childhood sweetheart realised his dreams of a successful band. It is true, Ian was a troubled person. Deborah Curtis, instead of pretending to understand the motives for his actions, tells the situation from her point of view; she felt alienated, misinformed, lied to, isolated, abandoned. She doesn't pretend to know her husband well enough to be able to say 'this WAS the reason he did this' etc. Although she was his wife, the closest person to Ian, she, like everyone else, ultimately had no clue as to what went on in his sadly tormented mind. A common problem I've noticed with books such as this is that, when the 'facts' are not entirely clear, the author will infer truths and make it dramatic. This doesn't happen in this book. When Deborah is sure of what happened, she writes it. But so often, she seems as alienated as everyone else in Ian's life, and she expresses this also. This is effective because it makes the book so real. When a person, especially a successful musican, commits suicide, it's so easy to get caught up in what THEY must have been feeling at the time. This book makes such a topic all the more 'real', because it shows exactly how others close to the person can be affected. It's a sad read, at times confusing, and entertaining. But above all, it is honest. Essential.
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parallel lives, Oct. 19 2003
20+ years ago, I reviewed Closer for a university newspaper. I've recently been rediscovering Joy Division, and so have read Deborah Curtis's memoir of her life with Ian. This is a remarkable book. Deborah was never an industry insider, a musician or a groupie; she seems to have been a sensitive yet very practical girl, who mostly wanted a conventional sort of marriage where they would raise children and maintain their house. Yet she was also really drawn to Ian's ambitious taste in music and his brooding romantic singularity, and she genuinely supported his desire to be a musician and believed in his genius. The book mostly follows the period from their marriage through the formation of Warsaw (later Joy Division), with extensive discussion of tours and recording sessions, through to Ian's suicide shortly before the band was to embark on its first American tour. At the same time, it describes the medical crises following Ian's diagnosis with a severe, virtually untreatable form of epilepsy, the birth of their daughter Natalie, and Deborah's discovery of her husband's affair with Annik Honore. To her credit, Deborah keeps her perspective consistent, refusing to speculate on others' responses. This makes more heartbreaking the extent to which she was gradually shut out of Ian's life, with the apparent complicity of the band and its management, as she became apparently insufficiently glamorous for the role of rock star consort. Yet while this book both deconstructs and humanizes the myth, rendering Ian Curtis an often viciously callous husband, Deborah never comes across as spiteful herself: she did what she could, and more, and always realized she'd have to learn to live on her own, and she never gave up on him, so that the glimmerings of mutual tenderness in their final difficult days are almost unbearably sad. Inadvertantly perhaps, she reveals a very young man whose visions were almost too great for him to bear, and whose loss of control over his life and health terrified him into severe depression, and she reveals a taciturn community in which she and Ian felt driven into an unspoken compact to cope by themselves. This isn't a depressing book; it isn't over-analytical, and there is real wit in her episodic treatment of their courtship, and her outsider's perspective on the Manchester music scene (such as when they go see the Sex Pistols, with Ian excited at the prospect of a band who 'fought on stage'). This book should be required reading for anyone whose introduction to Joy Division was the film 24 Hour Party People, whose history of the band is severely truncated and takes great liberties with the facts. Actually, I'd love to see the players in that part of the film in a film of Deborah Curtis's book. This is a brave and wonderful, incredibly intimate memoir, straightforward and unpretentious. It also includes an introduction by stellar punk historian Jon Savage, lyrics, as well as performance and recording information, and there is a centre section of photographs, some official (including an incandescent colour picture of Ian singing with his eyes closed in April 1980), some family snapshots (including a very cute engagement picture, and Ian with Natalie a few days before his death).
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Very well done memoir..., Mai 6 2002
Deborah Curtis did a great job with this narrative of her life with the former frontman for Joy Division, her husband Ian. Her story offers fantastic insight into the band behind the scenes, and also some tragic recounting of Ian's descent into depression and the reasons behind it. She goes into a lot of detail regarding her personal life, and shares things that most would have trouble sharing, and for that she is also to be commended.I have been intrigued for years by the music and mystery behind New Order, and the book answered many of the questions I had as to why events unfolded as they did. Excellent job, a must read for any die-hard New Order fans out there!
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Deborah Curtis - THE MYTH, Mars 26 2002
This book tear a part my hero. Now i see him as a man, and see his woman, as my hero. As many people, i would love to know what happened to Deborah Curtis.
How was Deborah and Natalie's life affected by her father's fame?
She opened her life to a lot of strangers.
Ms. Curtis - GREAT WOMAN...
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in a room with a window i found truth..., Fév 28 2002
i think that deborah curtis' biography of her late husband, ian curtis (singer/guitarist for the 1970's post-punk band joy division) is really great. i think that it is very touching. it shows ian curtis "the person" without sugar coating him at all, as i think many biographers have a tendency to do, especially if written post-humously. i couldn't decide whether or not to listen to joy division for a while after i read the book. ian curtis was kind of a mean, posessive person, but that person did write some very excellent music that still resonates today, more than 20 years later. this biography will no doubt leave you in disbelief, mouth agape, and more than likely, in the end, crying. a very good book with a very different insight to ian curtis. highly recommended.
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No Questions Answered, Aoû 16 2001
Upon finishing this book I turned back to the front cover stared at the picture of Ian Curtis. Then after a moment I opened it back up to page one and read it again. I had always asked the same questions everyone else asked, like "WHY?" But upon finishing the book, I understood that no one but Ian knew why! Not even the mother of his child. This book has painted the perfect picture of his life, as perfect as it could be painted. Deborah Curtis told a story that had to be hard to tell. I couldn't imagine the feelings that went through her mind as she typed the pages. The memories must have been crippling. I just have one thing to say, "Thank you, Deborah Curtis for letting us into your private life. You truly have changed my life!"
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Touching From A Distance. . ., Jui 20 2001
. . .further all the time. No kidding. Evidently from a distance was the only way Ian Curtis could touch or be touched, even in death. A fact especially touching for some, particularly those most distant from him- -the more romantic readers of this book. They like to call the story of his life and death "tragic," and "regrettable," for example. Granted. And Joy Division was indeed a phenomenon. But it is no longer "about" Ian Curtis or Joy Division. This is not his book. His story ended in May, 1980. This is Deborah Curtis' story. Ian Curtis happens to be the co-star. Anyone looking here for a "confessional" or "insight" into "the man's genius," (forgetting the music, forgetting the lyrics) or is disappointed because the book is not what he or she hoped is participating in and hoping for his or her own atrocity exhibition and personality cult. Oh, by the way- -congratulations and thank you, Deborah. This is one fine book.
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An idolized genius as a flawed man, Juil 9 2000
I read Deborah Curtis' biography of her late husband and leader of the band Joy Division, Ian Curtis just a few months ago and was captivated by its stark reality of a man's inner hell. I myself am a huge fan of Joy Division and their continuation as New Order so I was compelled to read about the life of Ian Curtis from the intimate point-of-view of his neglected wife. I was shocked to learn that Ian Curtis was such an awful husband who had been falling down the path of self-destruction all his life. I guess I'm a lot like Ian Curtis which is why I just had to read this biography, which is the best insight into the life of a musical genius. May Ian Curtis' soul rest in peace.
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An idolized genius as a flawed man, Juil 9 2000
I read Deborah Curtis' biography of her late husband and leader of the band Joy Division, Ian Curtis just a few months ago and was captivated by its stark reality of a man's inner hell. I myself am a huge fan of Joy Division and their continuation as New Order so I was compelled to read about the life of Ian Curtis from the intimate point-of-view of his neglected wife. I was shocked to learn that Ian Curtis was such an awful husband who had been falling down the path of self-destruction all his life. I guess I'm a lot like Ian Curtis which is why I just had to read this biography, which is the best insight into the life of a musical genius. May Ian Curtis' soul rest in peace.
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IAN CURTIS DEPRESSED GENIUS, Avril 3 2000
AL LEER ESTE LIBRO ME HE DADO CUENTA DE MUCHAS COSAS QUE YO NO SABIA SOBRE TAN FABULOSO CANTANTE , COMO LO ES IAN CURTIS , UNA DE LAS RAZONES POR LA CUAL COMPRE ESTE LIBRO ..FUE PARA ENTERARME MAS DE LA VIDA INTIMA DE TAN GENIAL CANTANTE , QUERIA TRATAR DE INTRODUCIRME EN SU CABEZA Y DARME CUENTA DE DONDE SALIAN TAN EXTRANAS CANCIONES ..DE DONDE SALIA TANTA OBSCURIDAD..(LO CUAL ES LO QUE MAS ADORO)LA OBSCURIDAD DE VUESTRAS CANCIONES ME HAN DEJADO SIN ALIENTO MUCHISIMAS VECES Y NO ME CANSO DE OIR SUS CANCIONES UNA Y OTRA VEZ ...ES UN BUEN LIBRO PARA TODO AQUE QUE SEA UN FANATICO DEL GRAN GRUPO BRITANICO ."JOY DIVISION" Y AUN SI NO LO SON .POR LO MENOS SI SON AMANTES DE LA LITERATURA ..ES UN BUEN LIBRO EN TODO EL SENTIDO ..OS GUSTARA ..OS LO PROMETO
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