But Beautiful - Geoff Dyer

But Beautiful

A Book About Jazz

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2012 | Main
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-0-85786-402-4 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
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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.

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.

Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 164 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Jazz / Blues
ISBN-10 0-85786-402-5 / 0857864025
ISBN-13 978-0-85786-402-4 / 9780857864024
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