Young Man with a Horn
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品牌: Dorothy BakerGary Giddins
基本信息出版社:NYRB Classics (2012年8月14日)平装:256页正文语种:英语ISBN:1590175778条形码:9781590175774商品尺寸:20.6 x 12.4 x 2 cm商品重量:367 gASIN:1590175778您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Dorothy Baker’sYoung Man with a Hornis widely regarded as the first jazz novel, and it courses with the verve and swing of the music that defined an era.
From the beginning, Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn’t matter to the boss at the Cotton Club that he was underage or to the folks in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out with nothing in the slums of LA, but there was a kind of fate to his ending up on top of the game in the speakeasies and nightclubs of New York. But where instinct and drive are all you need to take you far in music, they aren’t enough to make a life work.
Baker took her inspiration forYoung Man with a Hornfrom the tragic life of Bix Beiderbecke, and the novel went on to be adapted into a successful movie starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day.
媒体推荐“Young Man with a Hornis a great book, beautifully conceived and masterfully written. There is little else that can be said in praise of any book.” –New York Amsterdam News
“The Young Man with a Hornis the story of a musician, a swing trumpeter who lives only for the pounding rhythms in his blood. Yet despite its subject matter, it is not the fragment of fervid impressionism that the jazz age used to produce; despite the irrationalism of swing, the book itself is a clear-minded, informed, coldly rational study of a swing-addict.” –The New York Times
