Looking To Get Lost
Adventures in Music and Writing
$46.91
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
13 December 2022
Summary
It covers old ground from new perspectives, offering deeply felt, masterful, and strikingly personal portraits of creative artists, both musicians and writers, at the height of their powers.
“You put the book down feeling that its sweep is vast, that you have read of giants who walked among us,” rock critic Lester Bangs wrote of Guralnick’s earlier work in words that could just as easily be applied to this new one. And yet, for all of the encomiums that Guralnick’s books have earned f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316412605 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316412600 |
| Author: | Peter Guralnick |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Back Bay Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 13 December 2022 |
| Weight: | 580g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 150mm x 40mm |
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About The Author
Peter Guralnick
Peter Guralnick’s books include the prize-winning two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love; an acclaimed trilogy on American roots music, Feel Like Going Home, Lost Highway, and Sweet Soul Music; the biographical inquiry Searching for Robert Johnson; and Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. Guralnick won a Grammy for his liner notes for Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club, wrote and co-produced the documentary Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll, and wrote the scripts for the Grammy-winning documentary Sam Cooke/Legend and Martin Scorsese’s blues documentary Feel Like Going Home. His 2015 book Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll was a finalist for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography of the Year, awarded by the Biographers International Organization. His most recent book is Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing.
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