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100 1  Berg, Ross.
245 10 Gene Simmons : |ba rock 'n' roll journey in the shadow of the Holocaust : an unauthorized work of narrative nonfiction / |cRoss Berg.
246 30 Rock 'n' roll journey in the shadow of the Holocaust
264  1 Minneapolis, MN : |bMill City Press, |c[2012]
264  4  |c©2012
300    xxx, 269 pages : |billustrations ; |c21 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-268).
520    Gene Simmons' mother survived the Holocaust but the rest of her family perished in the camps. Gene 'played' at being evil in an attempt to understand and even control his curiosities about the dark side. His thoughts, fears, and personal demons gushed to the forefront of his being in the form of a hideous, fire-breathing, blood-spewing, death-mask creation that he began building as a young child in Haifa, Israel. Will the search for the birth of this alter-ego lead us directly into the shadows of the Holocaust?--Publisher's description.
500    "Author's note: The book you are about to read is an unauthorized work of narrative nonfiction. Similar in definition to historical fiction and creative nonfiction, narrative nonfiction is a style of writing that presents factual information shaped and presented to read like fiction. As a dramatization of real events, artistic license is employed at time to combine incidents that occurred on separate occasions into a single cohesive 'scene' for the sake of dramatic brevity and flow. In addition, dramatic license allows for the author to occasionally speculate on dialogue or how particular events are affecting the subject internally. Although much of what the book subject's mother experienced in the concentration camps is known and documented, gaps in her story do exist; in such instances, real stories of other Holocaust survivors have been inserted to flesh out and provide proper historical dimension to the vignette in question. Please see 'Source Notes' to satisfy concerns regarding accuracy of topics covered in these pages as the overwhelming majority are taken straight from the subject's own autobiographies and interviews spanning 38 years."--P. [i].
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Simmons, Gene, |d1949-
650  0 Rock musicians |zUnited States.
610 20 Kiss (Musical group)
600 10 Klein, Flora, |d1927-
650  0 Holocaust survivors.
650  0 Jewish way of life.
852 0   |bstacks |hML420.S5629 |iB47 2012