But Beautiful

A Book About Jazz

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving force of But Beautiful and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-05-10
Mått:129 x 198 x 15 mm
Vikt:164 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Canongate Books
ISBN:9780857864024
Utmärkelser:Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 1992

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Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as several non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

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Remarkable...there can be few books on jazz written with such tenderness and care.

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