Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story (Random House Large Print)

Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.

“When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I’d previously only sketched in songs.

The people, places, and possibilities in my life.

Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me.

Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept.

A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book.

I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands.

In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist.

Surrender is the story of one pilgrim’s lack of progress ...

With a fair amount of fun along the way.” —Bono As one of the music world’s most iconic artists and the cofounder of the organizations ONE and (RED), Bono’s career has been written about extensively.

But in Surrender, it’s Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has shared it with.