Thirty Rooms To Hide In: Insanity, Addiction, and Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic

Book Description

“’The Shining’ . . . but funnier.” That’s how the author describes his memoir Thirty Rooms To Hide In: Insanity, Addiction, and Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic. It’s the story of six boys growing up in a great dark house in Minnesota, as the father – a respected surgeon – goes slowly insane. With winters raging outside and the father raging within, it is their mother’s protection that allows the boys to have a wildly fun, thoroughly dysfunctional time growing up. With dark humor as the coin of their realm, and the Beatles as true north on their compass of Cool, the band of brothers make movies, start a rock & roll group, and wise-crack their way though a grim landscape of Eisenhower’s Cold War, fallout shelters, JFK’s assassination and their father’s insanity.

中文：

书名：藏在30个房间里：疯狂、上瘾和摇滚–在梅奥诊所的阴影中摇摆

“《闪耀》。。。但更有趣。“这就是作者对他的回忆录《三十间藏身之处：疯狂、上瘾和梅奥诊所阴影下的摇滚乐》的描述。这是一个关于六个男孩在明尼苏达州一所黑暗的大房子里长大的故事，父亲–一位受人尊敬的外科医生–慢慢失去了理智。外面严冬肆虐，父亲内心愤怒，正是母亲的保护，让孩子们度过了一段非常有趣、完全不正常的成长时光。以黑色幽默作为他们王国的硬币，披头士乐队在他们的酷指南针上是真正的北方，兄弟乐队制作电影，成立摇滚乐队，聪明地破解艾森豪威尔冷战时期、尘埃庇护所、肯尼迪遇刺事件和他们父亲的精神错乱的严峻局面。