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  • Her First American

    A Novel

    af Lore Segal ...
    Hailed by the New York Times as coming "closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel," Lore Segal stuns with this passionate love story of a refugee from Hitler's Europe and a witty, hard-drinking black intellectualFor Ilka Weissnix, everything is new. Having recently arrived in the United States, she is determined to escape the immigrant communities of New York and boards a train headed ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Kansas City Lightning

    The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

    " A tour de force . . . Crouch has given us a bone-deep understanding of Parker's music and the world that produced it. In his pages, Bird still lives." — Washington PostA stunning portrait of Charlie Parker, one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.Throughout his life, Charlie Parker ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Victory Is Assured

    Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch

    The grievous loss of Stanley Crouch, one of America’s most renowned intellectuals, is underscored by the posthumous appearance of these remarkable essays.With Stanley Crouch’s untimely death in 2020, American literature lost “a critic without peer” (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Crouch—a towering stylist, fearless columnist, and without question, one of the finest jazz critics of ... Læs mere

    206,36 kr.

  • Always in Pursuit

    Fresh American Perspectives

    As a cultural and political commentator, Stanley Crouch in unapologetically contentious and delightfully iconoclastic. Whether he is writing on the uniqueness of the American South, the death of Tupak Shakur, the O.J. Simpson verdict, or the damage done by the Oklahoma City bombing, Crouch's high-velocity exchange with American culture is conducted with scrupulous allegiance to the truth, even ... Læs mere

    83,63 kr.

  • Mr Sammler's Planet

    af Saul Bellow ...
    Serier serie Penguin Modern Classics
    Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a "registrar of madness," a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future (moon landings, endless possibilities). His Cyclopean gaze reflects on the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul. ... Læs mere

    94,33 kr.

  • Fulmini a Kansas City. L'ascesa di Charlie Parker

    Oversat af Marco Bertoli ...
    Lungamente annunciato negli Stati Uniti e attesissimo dagli appassionati di jazz, Fulmini a Kansas City è il primo capitolo della biografia che lo studioso e narratore afroamericano Stanley Crouch ha dedicato a Charlie Parker, il più grande sassofonista di tutti i tempi. Frutto di studi pluriennali, di ricerche e interviste sul campo, e animato da una prosa brillante e immaginifica, il libro ... Læs mere

    69,00 kr.

  • The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race

    The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994

    In this brilliantly acerbic collection of essays--a New York Times Notable Book in 1995--Stanley Crouch confirms that he is one of the most eloquent and unpredictable commentators on race and culture in American society--something already known to anyone who's seen him on 60 Minutes or read his columns in The Village Voice and The New Republic. 288 pp. National media appearances. ... Læs mere

    50,15 kr.

  • Considering Genius

    Writings on Jazz

    Stanley Crouch-MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient, co-founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, National Book Award nominee, and perennial bull in the china shop of black intelligentsia-has been writing about jazz and jazz artists for more than thirty years. His reputation for controversy is exceeded only by a universal respect for his intellect and passion. As Gary Giddons notes: "Stanley may be the ... Læs mere

    72,08 kr.

  • The Artificial White Man

    Essays on Authenticity

    In this penetrating collection of original essays, legendary gadfly and esteemed critic Stanley Crouch tackles the notion on authenticity-what it is, what it isn't, and what we make of it, for good or for bad. While the question of who's the real deal and who isn't has now seeped into nearly every corner of American culture, nowhere does the idea of authenticity hold greater sway than in the realm ... Læs mere

    47,24 kr.

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    Victory Is Assured

    Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch

    Uforkortet

    14 timer 45 min

    The grievous loss of Stanley Crouch, one of America's most renowned intellectuals, is underscored by the posthumous appearance of these remarkable essays.With Stanley Crouch's untimely death in 2020, American literature lost "a critic without peer" (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Crouch—a towering stylist, fearless columnist, and without question, one of the finest jazz critics of ... Læs mere

    235,73 kr.

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  • Saxophone Colossus

    The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

    af Aidan Levy ...
    Winner of the American Book Award (2023)Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award (2023)The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins.Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the “Saxophone Colossus,” he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time, winning Grammys, the Austrian Cross of ... Læs mere

    111,38 kr.

  • The Great Alone

    af Janet Dailey ...
    A sweeping multigenerational saga of the founding of the state of Alaska by a New York Times –bestselling author.Spanning two hundred years, this saga of romance and adventure in the untamed Alaska wilderness begins with Tasha Tarakanov, a beautiful Aleut woman, and her beloved Andrei, a noble and ambitious Cossack hunter. From their union come seven generations of proud Alaskans, including the ... Læs mere

    49,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus