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But Beautiful - a Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer [Dyer, Geoff] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is But Beautiful - a Book About Jazz about?
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano. . . In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving force of But Beautiful and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.
Who reads But Beautiful - a Book About Jazz?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Geoff Dyer [Dyer, Geoff]
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780857863355
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Music, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.23 / 5 (1,252 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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