{"product_id":"what-is-it-all-but-luminous-book-art-garfunkel-9780385352475","title":"What Is It All but Luminous","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoetic musings on a life well-lived\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eone that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isn't your typical autobiography. Garfunkel's history is told in flowing prose, bounding from present to past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Bookreporter \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt's hard to imagine any single word that would accurately describe this book . . . an entertaining volume that's more fun to read than a conventional memoir might have been. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Wall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A charming book of prose and poetry printed in a digitalized version of his handwriting . . . witty, candid, and wildly imaginative . . . A highly intelligent man trying to make sense of his extraordinary life. \u003cbr\u003e--Associated Press \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon \u0026amp; Garfunkel, a memoir (of sorts)--moving, lyrical impressions, interspersed throughout a narrative, punctuated by poetry, musings, lists of resonant books loved and admired, revealing a life and the making of a musician, that show us, as well, the evolution of a man, a portrait of a life-long friendship and of a collaboration that became the most successful singing duo in the roiling age that embraced, and was defined by, their pathfinding folk-rock music.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eWhat Is It All but Luminous\u003c\/i\u003e, Art Garfunkel writes about growing up in the 1940s and '50s (son of a traveling salesman, listening as his father played Enrico Caruso records), a middle-class Jewish boy, living in a redbrick semi-attached house on Jewel Avenue in Kew Gardens, Queens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He writes of meeting Paul Simon, the kid who made Art laugh (they met at their graduation play, \u003ci\u003eAlice in Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e; Paul was the White Rabbit; Art, the Cheshire Cat). Of their being twelve at the birth of rock'n'roll (it was rhythm and blues. It was black. I was captured and so was Paul), of a demo of their song, \u003ci\u003eHey Schoolgirl \u003c\/i\u003efor seven dollars and the actual record (with Paul's father on bass) going to #40 on the charts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He writes about their becoming Simon \u0026amp; Garfunkel, ruling the pop charts from the age of sixteen, about not being a natural performer but more a thinker, an underground man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He writes of the hit songs; touring; about being an actor working with directors Mike Nichols (the greatest of them all), about choosing music over a PhD in mathematics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And he writes about his long-unfolding split with Paul, and how and why it evolved, and after; learning to perform on his own . . . and about being a husband, a father and much more.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49544797618449,"sku":"GOR009050581","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49924035608849,"sku":"CIN0385352476G","price":4.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50352409411857,"sku":"CIN0385352476A","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50352411771153,"sku":"CIN0385352476VG","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53066083467537,"sku":"GOR013099374","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0385352476.jpg?v=1751072311","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/what-is-it-all-but-luminous-book-art-garfunkel-9780385352475","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}