But Beautiful

A Book About Jazz

Geoff Dyer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2012 | Main
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-0-85786-402-4 (ISBN)

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'A copy ... ought to be on everybody's Desert Island' Independent

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
Zustand	Neuware