Ray davies autobiography

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        2. The Kinks lead singer and song writer tells the story of his life and career to a nameless writer hired by "the Corporation" to be the rock singer's.
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          X-Ray (book)

          1994 book by Ray Davies

          X-Ray (1994) was Ray Davies' first major attempt to write prose outside his musical career as founding member of the British rock band the Kinks.[3]Robert Polito calls it an "experimental non-fiction" and describes Davies as "a prose stylist of Nabokovian ambition".[4]

          X-Ray

          The book, subtitled as an "unauthorized autobiography", employs a nameless 19-year-old first-person narrator hired by 'the Corporation' to seek out and interview a slightly demented geriatric version of Davies himself ten to twenty years after the time of the novel's publication.[5] Thus, while technically an autobiography, the work has an unreliable narrator.[6] In many ways a work of fiction, it reveals many factual details concerning the Kinks and other important figures of the swinging sixties, but tends to do so in a literary fashion.

          By employing this narrative device, Davies was able to shed some light on the life of