Birth of Uncool

Madeline Walker

ISBN 10: 192733537X / ISBN 13: 9781927335376

Edité par Demeter Press, CA, 2014

You are at your most uncool now age spotted, raggedy, not giving a shit, saucy, insouciant, real, crackly and juicy at once. -from "Crackly and juicy" Birth of the Cool, a compilation album by jazz great Miles Davis, was released in 1957, the year before I was born. That album defined ""cool jazz"": elegant, distant, hip, and stylish. Davis and his eight comusicians made it all look so easy. From the time I was very young, I was trying to be as cool as Davis's jazz: aloof, intellectual, desired, mysterious, alluring, and perfect. Only in my fifties did I understand that I had to relinquish this striving and rebirth the uncool parts of me-those bits that are sentimental, awkward, and vulnerable. This book is an eclectic and uncoolly accessible collection of musings on motherhood, childhood, recovery, faith, and love. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781927335376

Synopsis :

You are at your most uncool now age spotted, raggedy, not giving a shit, saucy, insouciant, real, crackly and juicy at once. --from "Crackly and juicy" Birth of the Cool, a compilation album by jazz great Miles Davis, was released in 1957, the year before I was born. That album defined "cool jazz" elegant, distant, hip, and stylish. Davis and his eight comusicians made it all look so easy. From the time I was very young, I was trying to be as cool as Davis's jazz: aloof, intellectual, desired, mysterious, alluring, and perfect. Only in my fifties did I understand that I had to relinquish this striving and rebirth the uncool parts of me--those bits that are sentimental, awkward, and vulnerable. This book is an eclectic and uncoolly accessible collection of musings on motherhood, childhood, recovery, faith, and love.

À propos de l'auteur: Madeline Walker is a writer and academic writing instructor at the School of Nursing at the University of Victoria. Her first book, TheTrouble with Sauling Around: Conversion in Ethnic American Autobiography,1965-2002, was published in 2011. Her work has also been published in Room, University of Toronto Review, the Journal for Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, and English Studiesin Canada. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia, with her husband and two cats.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Birth of Uncool
Éditeur : Demeter Press, CA
Date d'édition : 2014
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : New