Master of Reality: 33 1/3 - Brossura

Darnielle, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0826428991 ISBN 13: 9780826428998

Casa editrice: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2008

Riassunto

Black Sabbath's Master of Reality has maintained remarkable historical status over several generations; it's a touchstone for the directionless, and common coin for young men and women who've felt excluded from the broader cultural economy. John Darnielle hears it through the ears of Roger Painter, a young adult locked in a southern California adolescent psychiatric center in 1985; deprived of his Walkman and hungry for comfort, he explains Black Sabbath as one might describe air to a fish, or love to an android, hoping to convince his captors to give him back his tapes.

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Recensione:

[T]he focus of Darnielle's fans has always been on his  lyrics and the stories contained within them. Now he's stepped off the stage and sat down at is typewriter to deliver  Master of Reality, his first novel and a stunning piece of rock criticism and  appreciation.    Readers are likely to come to Master of Reality from a  variety of backgrounds. Some will come  as Mountain Goats fans wanting to see Darnielle tackle a novel, others as Black  Sabbath fans wanting to read about a favorite album. Some will simply be fans of the cult-popular  33 1/3 series, which has now grown to dozens of books, yet kept its level of  quality very high. Hopefully, there will  be others who will pick it up as novel first, because it truly is a first-rate  story, full of moments that will pluck at your heartstrings as you're brought  back to the moment you first fell in love with a piece of music, when an album  provided not just the soundtrack to your life but also the meaning behind  it. If, by some strange chance, none of  this happens, well, you're probably going to at least dust off your old Sabbath  vinyl, and there's nothing wrong with that either. --NewPages.com

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John Darnielle is the singer and songwriter otherwise known as the Mountain Goats.

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• Editore: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0826428991
• ISBN 13: 9780826428998
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 101