Easy Street (The Hard Way): A Memoir by Ron Perlman
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Overview: Just finished. Fast paced, interesting read. With the bustling neighborhoods of New York City as the backdrop, Ron Perlman tells of his early ambitions , his early decisions and indecisions, and what it was like to walk in the shoes of a grass green actor in a profession by turns exhilarating and soul crushing.
I enjoyed the down to earth tone, the easy voice, the openness of the actor starting on a promising and terrifying journey. The attraction for, and fascination with, his future wife is endearing, the fear of failure is palpable. His infatuation with luck, bad luck, and the reality of life’s capriciousness is very present in the book’s language. The young actor’s combination of ignorance of how hard things can get and a natural instinct for how to rise above is a blending that is universally shared and endured.
Unfortunately, the author rushes through some heartrending personal circumstances, tragedies that one can’t help but conclude had deep and lasting influences on his character and career. One can forgive the omissions however, even a writer/actor/philosopher is entitled to the solitude of his most intimate thoughts and reminisces. His honesty in other places makes up for any dearth in relating the pathos of the loss of loved relations. In other words, it’s understandable. It’s just that as much as he gives us, we want to know more. Often we are more formed by our sorrows than our joys.
He is honest in feeling and idea. He shares the ambiguities and uncertainties that reflect upon his occupational interactions and personal life alike. On the whole, I think the reader comes away with the sense that like all of us, the author is on a continuous search for self knowledge and personal satisfaction. I’m not sure his optimism is genuine but it certainly sounds as if he, Ron Perlman, would like it to be. He wants life to have meaning, sense, balance, justice. In the face of a world with so much of the opposite, it is inspiring that he won’t give up trying. I would suggest this is the book’s theme: just keep on reaching.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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