Bowie's Bookshelf
Synopsis
Named one of Entertainment Weekly&’s 12 biggest music memoirs this fall. &“An artful and wildly enthralling path for Bowie fans in particular and book lovers in general.&” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) &“The only art I&’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.&” ―David Bowie Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities.In 100 short essays, music journalist John O&’Connell studies each book on Bowie&’s list and contextualizes it in the artist&’s life and work. How did the power imbued in a single suit of armor in The Iliad impact a man who loved costumes, shifting identity, and the siren song of the alter-ego? How did The Gnostic Gospels inform Bowie&’s own hazy personal cosmology? How did the poems of T.S. Eliot and Frank O&’Hara, the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov and Anthony Burgess, the comics of The Beano and The Viz, and the groundbreaking politics of James Baldwin influence Bowie&’s lyrics, his sound, his artistic outlook? How did the 100 books on this list influence one of the most influential artists of a generation? Heartfelt, analytical, and totally original, Bowie&’s Bookshelf is one part epic reading guide and one part biography of a music legend.
- Copyright:
- 2019 Gallery Books
Book Details
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- ISBN-13:
- 9781982112554
- Publisher:
- Gallery Books
- Date of Addition:
- 2019-11-12T11:15:46Z
- Language:
- English
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- This is a copyrighted book.