But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer
In a series of fictional portraits, this book captures the beating heart of jazz, its pathos and lyricism, urgency and self-destruction - Charlie Mingus in New York: driven by range, built and behaving like a battering ram; Art Pepper in prison: an alto and Alcatraz; Lester Young in the Alvin.GEOFF DYER s books include But Beautiful (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award); The Missing of the Somme; Out of Sheer Rage; The Ongoing Moment (winner of the ICP Infinity Award for writing on photography); Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; and Zona. His many awards include the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and, most recently, a National Book Critics Circle Award for the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and his books have been translated into twenty-four languages. Dyer currently lives in Venice, California.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9780099777809 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099777800 |
| Titel | But Beautiful |
| Autor | Geoff Dyer |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Vintage Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1992-08-20 |
| Seitenanzahl | 208 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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