Cigar Box Banjo - Couverture rigide

Quarrington, Paul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1553654382 ISBN 13 : 9781553654384

Editeur : Greystone Books,Canada, 2010

Synopsis

In Paul Quarrington's favorite childhood recording, a boy fashions a banjo from a cigar box, pluckily sets off for a contest in the next town, and wins with a song that weaves in the sounds he hears along the way: a bluebird trilling, truck tires whining. Years later, a writer and musician himself, Quarrington is suddenly diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and begins to ponder the path his own life has taken and the music it's made along the way. Quarrington ruminates on the bands of his childhood; his restless youth, spent playing bass with a cult band; and his incarnation, in middle age, as rhythm guitarist and singer with the band Porkbelly Futures. From rock n roll to country and soul, he explores how songs are made, how they work, and why they affect us so deeply."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paul Quarrington an acclaimed author, screenwriter and musician, died in January 2010, just days after completing the Cigar Box Banjo manuscript. His most recent novel, The Ravine, was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and he received the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for his novel King Leary, which was also the victor in "Canada Reads 2008."

Roddy Doyle is an internationally bestselling writer. His first three novels-The Commitments, The Snapper, and the 1991 Booker Prize finalist The Van-are known as

The Barrytown Trilogy

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Greystone Books,Canada
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1553654382
• ISBN 13: 9781553654384
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible