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Subject(s)

• Musicians—Fiction [Browse]
• Short stories, American [Browse]

Series

Iowa short fiction award [More in this series]

Summary note

℗¡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.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

ISBN

• 9781609380434 (electronic bk.)
• 1609380436 (electronic bk.)

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