31 Songs

Nick Hornby (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2003
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-101340-4 (ISBN)

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Discusses, among other things, guitar solos and losing your virginity to a Rod Stewart song and singers whose teeth whistle and the sort of music you hear in Body Shop. The author writes about 31 songs that either have some great significance in his life - or are just songs that he loves.

'I decided that I wanted to write a little book of essays about songs I loved ... Songs are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else.'
In his first non-fiction work since Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs that either have some great significance in his life - or are just songs that he loves. He discusses, among other things, guitar solos and losing your virginity to a Rod Stewart song and singers whose teeth whistle and the sort of music you hear in Body Shop.
'The soundtrack to his life ... a revealing insight into one of Britain's most popular writers' Evening Standard

Nick Hornby is the author of six bestselling novels (High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down, Juliet, Naked and Funny Girl), as well as a novel for young adults, Slam, and four works of acclaimed non-fiction: Fever Pitch, 31 Songs, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree and Stuff I've Been Reading. He has written the screenplays for the films Fever Pitch, Wild, Brooklyn and An Education, which was nominated for an Oscar. He lives in Highbury, north London.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.11.2003
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	239 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
Schlagworte	Hornby, Nick • Popmusik
ISBN-10	0-14-101340-0 / 0141013400
ISBN-13	978-0-14-101340-4 / 9780141013404
Zustand	Neuware