The Lightning Bottles
The Lightning Bottles is a novel about the music industry in 1990s by Marissa Stapley.[1][2][3][4]
Stapley said she had wanted to write the novel, for years.[1]
plot
[edit | edit source]The novel is largely a road-trip.
Stapley was a fan of grunge music, while growing up, and her heroine, Jane Pyre was part of grunge band, The Lightening Bottles that had a relatively brief period of phenomenal success, during the grunge period.[2][3][4] The band's success comes to an end when Pyre's photogenic lover and co-band-leader disappears, at the peak of their fame. Pyre was the talented song-writer for the band, but a sexist music establishment regarded her lover as the band's center. Most fans blamed her for the band's breakup.
Because fans and music establishment figures blame her for the band's breakup she moves to Germany, where she thinks she can live in obscurity.[2][3][4] However, she meets a teenage fan there, who convinces her that they can find her missing partner, and they go on that road-trip.
References
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Jamie Portman (2024-10-31). "Author interview: Marissa Stapley". National Post. Retrieved 2025-02-15.
It’s the novel that Marissa Stapley long wanted to write — a story that lifts the lid off the music scene of the 1990s.
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"Marissa Stapley's latest takes readers on a road trip to solve a rock 'n' roll mystery". CBC News. 2024-02-15. Retrieved 2025-02-15.
'The artists I grew up on tried to teach me that heroes could save themselves, heroines could stand alone, and you could be yourself even if that wasn't what the world expected of you,' she told CBC Books in an email. 'They changed my life and left their mark on the world—and I hope this novel stands as a monument to their talent and brings them all back into the conversation.'
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"The Lightning Bottles by Marissa Stapley". CBC News. 2024-02-15. Retrieved 2025-02-15.
A cross-continent road trip about two misunderstood outsiders brought together by their shared love of music, interwoven with flashbacks to the beginnings of Jane and Elijah's love story and meteoric rise, The Lightning Bottles is a love story, a celebration of rock 'n' roll, and a searing portrait of the cost of fame.
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"How 90s music stars Jeff Buckley and Sinead O'Connor inspired Marissa Stapley's latest novel". CBC News. 2024-10-04. Retrieved 2025-02-15.
A love letter to music and female artists who deserve the same powerful legacies as their male counterparts, Stapley wrote The Lightning Bottles to give a voice to both them and the teenagers listening to music, waiting for their lives to begin.