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Title: BUT BEAUTIFUL
A BOOK ABOUT JAZZ
By: Geoff Dyer
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0857864025
ISBN 13: 9780857864024
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Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 1 May, 2012
Edition: Main
Pages: 240
Description: 'A copy ... ought to be on everybody's Desert Island' Independent
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Canongate Books Ltd
Prizes: Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 1992 Short-listed for John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize 1992
Returns: Returnable
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