Power ballads / Will Boast.

Author
Boast, Will [Browse]
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2011]
Description
1 online resource (160 pages.)

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Iowa short fiction award [More in this series]
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℗¡Real musicians don and rsquo;t sign autographs, date models, or fly in private jets. They spend their lives in practice rooms and basement clubs or toiling in the obscurity of coffee-shop gigs, casino jobs, and the European festival circuit. The ten linked stories in Power Ballads are devoted to this unheard virtuoso: the working musician.℗¡From the wings of sold-out arenas to hip-hop studios to polka bars, these stories are born out of a nocturnal world where music is often simply work, but also where it can, in rare moments, become a source of grace and transcendence, speaking about the things w.
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Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
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  • 9781609380434 (electronic bk.)
  • 1609380436 (electronic bk.)
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