I Left It on the Mountain: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (905 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312598386 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"words erupted from a place few need experience" according to Landreth. While this memoir differs immensely from his first, it is, none the less, a glimpse into a world few of us experience and even fewer will know. I read this novel knowing I lived beside the author while he struggled through his time in Provincetown. Little did I know while I was given the honor of reading his speech to the delegation abroad, that I too would take a journey away from my sobriety & into the world of Lucifer & the light. This memoir is a moving tribute to that journ. "Honest confessions from a man seeking redemption, studded with celebrities." according to ZenWoman. I had no idea who Kevin Sessums was before I read this book. The title and his picture on the cover drew me in as he stands in an almost devout expression as if he is at an altar but there is a sense of lingering chagrin that was puzzling but compelling. As I started reading the book I realized that he has known some of the biggest celebrities of our time, and some have offered him an in-depth view into their personal lives. He recounts some of these encounters in the first few . Poor little rich girl As Noel Coward said some 80 years ago:Poor little rich girl, you're a bewitched girl, better take care.Laughing at danger, virtue a stranger, better beware!The life you lead sets all your nerves a jangle,Your love affairs are in a hopeless tangle,Though your a child,dear, your life's a wild typhoon.In lives of leisure, the craze for pleasure steadily growsCocktails and laughter, but what comes after, nobody knows .Kevin Sessums lived on the edge; he had a large and teetering to
On his 53rd birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. For years he had interviewed the bright lights: Madonna, Courtney Love, Jessica Lange, and all the other usual suspects; but, Kevin knew that his rapidly unraveling life was as shallow as the hotel's hip furniture and he was hanging on by his fingertips. Kilimanjaro, walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostelo and trudging across the cold, lonely winter beaches of Provincetown. Peopled with the famous like Daniel Radcliffe and Diane Sawyer as well as anonymous companions corporeal and otherwise whom he met while mountain climbing and hiking, I Left It on the Mountain is the story of one man's fall and rebirth, the next moving chapter in Kevin Sessums' extraordinary life that takes him from the high to the low and back again. In I Left It on the Mountain, Sessums chronicles his early days in NY as an actor, his years working for Andy Warhol at Interview and Tina Brown at Vanity Fair, countless nights of anonymous sex, his HIV Positive diagnosis and his descent into addiction. It's also the chronicle of one man's spiritual redemption found while climbing to the top of Mt. For readers who loved
The kindness Kevin has always showed others, he finally proffers to himself. Kevin Sessums goes one further and makes you feel they're true because contradictory - he wouldn't be the excited, vivid, big-game celebrity hunter he is, did he not experience so keenly the sadness of the chase and the starry desolation of those he tracks. A book both strong and delicate, of the world and of the spirit in equal measure.” Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson, author of The Mighty Walzer, Kalooki Nights, The Finkler Question, and J: A Novel. “With the most acute eye, an ear for the telling phrase, and a brand of compassion seldom encountered in the world of celebrity journalism,
He was previously a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Allure. . He lives in San Francisco, California. KEVIN SESSUMS is Editor-in-Chief of 429 and author of the New York Times Best Seller Mississippi Sissy. His work has appeared in Elle, Travel + Leisure, Playboy, Out, and Show People