Headed For The Blues: A Memoir With Ten Stories - Brossura

Skvorecky, Josef

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ISBN 10: 0676971032 ISBN 13: 9780676971033

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 1998

Riassunto

In this acclaimed memoir, one of our most revered writers reveals the true story behind his highly autobiographical fiction - accompanied by ten dark and hilarious interconnected tales set in Czechoslovakia's jazz-filled underground.

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Recensione

"Sexy and saxy.... čkvorecký replays ... his trademark riffs on literature, love and exile [and] the adventures of young -- jazz lovers in 1950s Prague." -The Globe and Mail

"Compelling ... [Headed for the Blues] conveys the uncanny sensation of what it must have felt like to be gripped in the madcap claustrophobia of postwar Czechoslovak society with its tangled moral dilemmas and its tendency toward absurd domestic tragi-comedy." -The New York Times Book Review

"Equal parts Lenin and Kafka.... The humour, as one would expect, is of the laugh to keep from crying school." -The Globe and Mail

"Throughout, there's a powerfully tight line of fraught, threatened, fearful energy that suggests, more than any anecdote, what it must have been like to live under the crush of an arbitrarily cruel regime.... [This is čkvorecký's] life and times in its original dark hues." -Quill & Quire

L'autore

Josef čkvorecký is the winner of numerous literary prizes including the Governor General's Award, the Order of Canada and the Order of the White Lion. He lives in Toronto.

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• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0676971032
• ISBN 13: 9780676971033
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile