More Towels: In Between the Notes - Couverture souple

Jarrett, Grant

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0595237983 ISBN 13 : 9780595237982

Editeur : iUniverse, 2002

Synopsis

One of the four younger brothers of a gifted and very successful jazz pianist, our less exceptional protagonist begins his peculiar journey of discovery at the age of seventeen, leaving his home in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains to travel with a laughably bad, self-contained show band, "led by Fred Waring Jr., the recovering alcoholic son of a had-been bandleader and blender inventor whose limited celebrity dissolved in the nineteen-fifties even more swiftly than it materialized in the forties." As he travels back and forth across the continent with a series of mostly unremarkable bands-bands with names such as "Love, Peace, and Soul" and "Natural Feelin'"-he encounters a world wherein talent is far less essential than a charming smile and the willingness to wear a ruffled polyester shirt, a world wherein getting laid is far more enjoyable, and a hell of a lot easier than learning to play his instrument or sustaining a meaningful relationship. Beautiful young women and angry husbands litter his voyage; there are violent assaults and hilarious confrontations, and through it all, as he searches desperately for something or someone to believe in, rarely finding anything more than a place to put his "pee-pee, he shares his intensely cynical view of himself and the world around him.Though far more humorous than many memoirs, More Towels is still a serious and often touching coming-of-age story, a story of growth and acceptance and all the battles along the way.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Grant Jarrett spent the first twenty years of his working life as a professional musician, and the six years following managing a small business in Manhattan and writing his first memoir. In the past six years he has written over a dozen short stories, two novels, and a second memoir. Mr. Jarrett lives in New York City and earns his living as an editor and freelance writer. In 2001 he published half a dozen magazine articles and ghostwrote a nonfiction book for Pocketbooks.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0595237983
• ISBN 13: 9780595237982
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible