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Nina Simone's Gum

Nina Simone's Gum

A Memoir of Things Lost and Found

by Warren Ellis
Paperback
Publication Date: 22/11/2022

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From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave.

THE TIMES BESTSELLER

FEATURING AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK CAVE

I hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina Simone, her saliva and fingerprints unsullied. The idea that it was still in her towel was something I had drawn strength from. I thought each time I opened it some of Nina Simone's spirit would vanish. In many ways that thought was more important than the gum itself.

On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown Festival. After the show, in a state of awe, Warren Ellis crept onto the stage, took Dr Simone's piece of chewed gum from the piano, wrapped it in her stage towel and put it in a Tower Records bag. The gum remained with him for twenty years; a sacred totem, his creative muse, a conduit that would eventually take Ellis back to his childhood and his relationship with found objects, growing in significance with every passing year.

Nina Simone's Gum is about how something so small can form beautiful connections between people. It is a story about the meaning we place on things, on experiences, and how they become imbued with spirituality. It is a celebration of artistic process, friendship, understanding and love.

ISBN:
9780571365630
9780571365630
Category:
Individual composers & musicians
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
22-11-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
208
Dimensions (mm):
204.98x154.94x18.03mm
Weight:
0.45kg

'Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol's piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.'
- NICK CAVE

'In praise of meaning-rich relics and magical things. Totally heartwarming project.'
- MAX PORTER

'A unique study of a fan's devotion, of transcendence and of the artistic vocation - it's got depth and great warmth. It's a beautiful piece of work.'
- KEVIN BARRY

'[A] beautiful, strikingly idiosyncratic book - part memoir, part essay, part conceptual art project, all testament to humans at their strangest and best . . . [Ellis] sees signifiance where others might not.'
- MOJO

'[Nina Simone's Gum] is a metaphor for [Ellis'] creativity - the blossoming of a small idea into something bigger and bolder - but also a journey inside the impulsive, improvisatory mind of Warren Ellis, his passions, obsessions and superstitions.'
- OBSERVER

Warren Ellis

Warren Ellis is a comics and graphic novel writer best known for the graphic novel series Transmetropolitan, The Authority and Planetary.

With over 35 graphic novels in print, Ellis has received numerous accolades, including winner of the International Horror Guild award for graphic narrative and being named one of Entertainment Weekly's 100 Most Creative People.

Rolling Stone described his work as "more influenced by Jesus and Mary Chain than by the Justice League, while his characters fight for left-wing agendas over God and country, and kick puppies in the street."

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