Plenty of information, too, in See a Little Light — dates, names, places, times, dollar amounts — and one of the book's surprises is how organized Bob is. Even at his most Hüsker Dü–ishly raging, for example, he seems to have planned the band's tours very professionally, mapping out his territories and making his ledger entries with the objectivity of a traveling boiler-brush salesman. The Hüskers break up around page 150, which leaves us another 200 pages in which to enjoy the further adventures of this curious sensibility: the genesis of the brooding Workbook, the rise of Sugar, his acceptance of (and eventual rejoicing in) his identity as a gay man, his dalliance with dance music, and a surreal stint writing scripts for pro wrestling (during which our hero finds himself gobbling steroids — when in Rome . . .). He starts going to church as well, which I heartily applaud. A driven man — an awkward bastard, perhaps — Bob seems to have found a measure of peace in his middle years, even as the rest of us, reading See a Little Light, are feeling again the reverberations of his gloriously turbulent young manhood.
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