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Published by Square One
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About The Book
During the summer of ’69, Elliot Tiber (April 15, 1935–August 3, 2016) helped start the gay liberation movement and saved the Woodstock Festival from cancellation. But some of the best and most significant events of Tiber’s life did not happen until After Woodstock.
In this third volume of his memoirs, following the critically acclaimed Palm Trees on the Hudson and his breakout bestseller Taking Woodstock, Tiber chronicles his hilarious, madcap, and often heartbreaking adventures in the entertainment industry. Guided as much by chutzpah as by his creative drive, Tiber travels around the world, always looking to grab the brass ring. And everywhere he goes, from Hollywood to Brussels, Tiber makes his indelible, irreverent, unique mark.
Along the way, Tiber meets the celebrated Belgian playwright and director André Ernotte. Over the course of his decades-long relationship with Ernotte, Tiber realizes his potential as a humorist and writer, and finds a way to cope with his difficult mother, whose second wedding in the hills of Israel gives new meaning to the Wailing Wall. The relationship is tested by the AIDS crisis and a string of professional disappointments, but ultimately endures the test of time. With Ernotte, Tiber finally learns the true meaning of love.
A passionate and joyful evocation of a very different time, After Woodstock reminds us how the search for love and meaning drives us forward.
In this third volume of his memoirs, following the critically acclaimed Palm Trees on the Hudson and his breakout bestseller Taking Woodstock, Tiber chronicles his hilarious, madcap, and often heartbreaking adventures in the entertainment industry. Guided as much by chutzpah as by his creative drive, Tiber travels around the world, always looking to grab the brass ring. And everywhere he goes, from Hollywood to Brussels, Tiber makes his indelible, irreverent, unique mark.
Along the way, Tiber meets the celebrated Belgian playwright and director André Ernotte. Over the course of his decades-long relationship with Ernotte, Tiber realizes his potential as a humorist and writer, and finds a way to cope with his difficult mother, whose second wedding in the hills of Israel gives new meaning to the Wailing Wall. The relationship is tested by the AIDS crisis and a string of professional disappointments, but ultimately endures the test of time. With Ernotte, Tiber finally learns the true meaning of love.
A passionate and joyful evocation of a very different time, After Woodstock reminds us how the search for love and meaning drives us forward.
Excerpt
"[After Woodstock] is by turns a brave, hilarious, mortifying, and heartbreaking story. In this new book, we get to see Elliot Tiber just as he has always been—a gay man who has been unafraid to stand up for who he is. This is a man who lived through the Stonewall riots, the AIDS crisis, and the slow but steady legalization of gay marriage in the United States. But much of what makes Elliot's story after Woodstock so pure and compelling can be found in the figure of Elliot's longtime lover, the late Belgian actor and director André Ernotte.
"As presented by Elliot in the pages that follow, André stands as a gentle, brilliant, and often flawed counterpoint to Elliot. Without the love and respect that he received from André, Elliot might never have become the unapologetically free and confident man I met all those years later. We watch in this book as life with André helps Elliot become a better writer, a better brother, a better friend, and a better son to a mother whom he never truly understands . . . We witness how perilously close both Elliot and André come to that terribly harmful place within
—the dangerous terrain that all artists, gay or straight, must navigate during the creative process. Here, in After Woodstock, I feel that Elliot Tiber has both depicted and transcended that terrain masterfully. I remain proud to have already shared one of Elliot's real-life stories with the world, and I hope that the world will embrace these new stories as well." —from the Foreword by Ang Lee
"As presented by Elliot in the pages that follow, André stands as a gentle, brilliant, and often flawed counterpoint to Elliot. Without the love and respect that he received from André, Elliot might never have become the unapologetically free and confident man I met all those years later. We watch in this book as life with André helps Elliot become a better writer, a better brother, a better friend, and a better son to a mother whom he never truly understands . . . We witness how perilously close both Elliot and André come to that terribly harmful place within
—the dangerous terrain that all artists, gay or straight, must navigate during the creative process. Here, in After Woodstock, I feel that Elliot Tiber has both depicted and transcended that terrain masterfully. I remain proud to have already shared one of Elliot's real-life stories with the world, and I hope that the world will embrace these new stories as well." —from the Foreword by Ang Lee
Product Details
- Publisher: Square One (March 11, 2015)
- Length: 480 pages
- ISBN13: 9780757053924
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Raves and Reviews
"Rapturous in tone and immense in detail . . . There are shades of Kerouac . . . a slightly freer and more discursive prose style than we have seen from Tiber before . . . Tiber recalls the trajectory of his life with sparkle and pizzazz . . . From the descriptions to the crisp and often hilarious dialogue, the narrative is a relentlessly-paced witches’ brew of highs and lows; of wit and despair . . . One of the most unexpected delights of this book is, when all is said and done, it is essentially a warm and beautiful love story . . . will very nearly devastate anyone who has ever loved and lost . . . After Woodstock stands proudly as this often erratic but brilliant man’s heart-filled masterpiece. —Blogcritics.org
– Blogcritics.org
"Tiber writes about [his] life with unvarnished intimacy . . . His political and literary high points are balanced by the low points of breakups and the AIDS epidemic, captured with dazed immediacy. Tiber squeezes life for all it is worth, ringing out the last quarter of the 20th century with the offbeat, at-times twisted humor of a survivor."
– Kirkus Reviews
"A hugely entertaining story . . . [After Woodstock] is a very funny memoir that has a deep emotional core . . . Familiarity with [Tiber's former book] Taking Woodstock isn't necessary to enjoy this well-written, very personal story, but it would add another layer to the experience."
– Booklist
"[A] bittersweet memoir . . . Tiber delivers a wonderful account of survival while wrestling with creativity, loss, tragedy, and disconnection from traditional family values. Foreword by noted film director Ang Lee."
– Publishers Weekly
“There is something intrinsically appealing about Tiber's storytelling. He is a smart aleck with a zany sense of humor, full of quips and one-liners . . . this memoir will draw in anyone who picks it up.”
– Library Journal
"A remarkably rich series of life encounters that, quite simply, provides a rollicking good read; especially for prior fans of Tiber, who will appreciate even more depth and action in this latest addition to his ongoing life story."
– Midwest Book Review
"Tiber writes in an easy, comfortable style which lulls you into hypnotically following his story . . . the story is hilarious . . . If you’re looking for a good read, pick up a copy of After Woodstock. You’ll find it hard to put down."
– Out in Jersey
"Delightful . . . If, in fact, you like a little madness with your memoir, find After Woodstock and you'll have it all."
– The Bookworm Sez (nationally syndicated review columnist)
"The third volume of Tiber's memoirs . . . [After Woodstock] stands as a tribute to a relationship that endured and deepened up until the moment of [its] last breath . . ."
– Vinton Rafe McCabe, The New York Journal of Books
"After Woodstock starts after the [1969] festival, and thoroughly, exuberantly, and exhaustively tracks Tiber through every high, low, and high again of his prodigiously creative life . . . a combination of raucous chutzpah and endearing self-sensitivity . . . this is a mammoth memoir . . . visceral and pleasurable . . . [and] liberating . . . Read this for the sake of following a life well lived, a reminder that the old Woodstock spirit is alive and well in many forms."
– Jana Martin, Chronogram
“Tiber writes in an easy, comfortable style which lulls you into hypnotically following his story . . . hilarious (and sad) . . . [he] expertly leads us along his Candide-like journey which lasted the nearly four decades covered by this book . . . [Tiber’s experiences are] enough to bring tears to the reader’s eyes. If you’re looking for a good read, pick up a copy of After Woodstock. You’ll find it hard to put down.”
– Philly Gay Calendar
“Amust-read if you’re looking for a great, rollicking firsthand account of [theSixties], and what happened next . . . bold and maximalist . . . As this exuberant memoir continues,there’s an incredible sense of a life well lived. [Tiber’s] relationship withlongtime partner, Belgian playwright and director André Ernotte, was turbulent,intense, and productive, resulting in a bestselling novel in Belgium (RueHaute) and a film adaptation directed byErnotte. The love between these two veers from serene to tumultuous and backagain, a roller-coaster of attachment and need. As one succeeds, the otherstruggles, and Tiber writes with great perceptivity about the dynamics of twobrilliant, vulnerable, ambitious people trying to be one. Suffice to say thatthe title delivers on all of its promises, with great expansiveness and energy.”
– Medium.com, Medium.com
*** BELOW IS A REVIEW OF ???AFTER WOODSTOCK ??IN AUDIO (NARRATED BY ?EDWIN WALD?) ?***
"As narrated by Edwin Wald, an actor who has a gift for accents and great conversational timing, the epic and the raucous sides of Tiber’s memoir [After Woodstock] really come out . . . The story is just what the title promises: it’s true, it includes a whole lot of transcontinental moves, and it’s packed with life . . . The bold and maximalist prose of the book becomes a highly enjoyable, listenable tale when narrated out loud, conveying a stronger sense of Tiber’s own state of mind in the way Wald takes readers along the journey . . . an epic of its time that takes you along on a journey . . . a great reminder that life is for living — and stories are for telling."
– Medium.com
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