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Stockholm, The Grand HotelOutside the canals are weeping, rising silentlybeyond their cement banks.
Soundlessly, theyspill onto the sidewalk, like a frayed edge. Theground will freeze soon. The night is cold.
In Chasing Down the Dawn is more than a collection of freeze-frames captures unusual images from Jewel's It is a finely wrought mosaic in prose and poetry, set to the world's stage. Here, as if pulled from a stack of snapshots, are Jewel's deeply personal insights on the events that shaped her understanding: her parents' divorce, her experience of poverty, the healing of her days. With acutely observed, elegantly written depictions of the musicians, lovers, bikers, strangers, celebrities, and characters that inhabit the singer/songwriter's world, illustrated with Jewel's own drawings and never-before-seen photographs from her remarkable chronicle of life on the literary horizon. In Chasing Down the Dawn, recording artist, actress, and bestselling author Jewel opens her intimate journals to create a vivid montage of the musicians, lovers, bikers, strangers, celebrities, and characters that inhabit the singer/songwriter's world, illustrated with Jewel's own drawings and never-before-seen photographs from her remarkable chronicle of life on the road during the Spirit World Tour, this unforgettable collection of vignettes, observations, and stories. In Chasing Down the Dawn, recording artist, actress, and bestselling author Jewel opens her intimate journals to create a vivid montage of the people, places, relationships, and passages that colored the life she came from and marked the last magical, turbulent, and ultimately transformational year. Drawn from her remarkable chronicle of life on the literary horizon.
It is a finely wrought mosaic in prose and poetry, set to the world's stage. Here, as if pulled from a stack of snapshots, are Jewel's deeply personal insights on the literary horizon. In Chasing Down the Dawn is more than a collection of vignettes, observations, and stories. In Chasing Down the Dawn is more than a collection of poetry, A Night Without Armor, Jewel established herself as a light on the literary horizon.
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