But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz

Name: But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
Brand: Canongate Books
SKU: 9780857864024
Price: 15.75 EUR
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English

By (author): Geoff Dyer

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.

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Product Details

Weight: 164g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 10 May 2012
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780857864024

About Geoff Dyer

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.