Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books That Changed David Bowie's Life by O'Connell, John

Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books That Changed David Bowie's Life

Named one of Entertainment Weekly's 12 biggest music memoirs this fall. "An artful and wildly enthralling path...
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Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books That Changed David Bowie's Life by O'Connell, John

Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books That Changed David Bowie's Life

€25,09

Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books That Changed David Bowie's Life

€25,09
Author: John O'Connell
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Named one of Entertainment Weekly's 12 biggest music memoirs this fall. "An artful and wildly enthralling path for Bowie fans in particular and book lovers in general." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from." ―David Bowie

Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities.

In 100 short essays, music journalist John O'Connell studies each book on Bowie's list and contextualizes it in the artist's life and work. How did the power imbued in a single suit of armor in The Iliad impact a man who loved costumes, shifting identity, and the siren song of the alter-ego? How did The Gnostic Gospels inform Bowie's own hazy personal cosmology? How did the poems of T.S. Eliot and Frank O'Hara, the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov and Anthony Burgess, the comics of The Beano and The Viz, and the groundbreaking politics of James Baldwin influence Bowie's lyrics, his sound, his artistic outlook? How did the 100 books on this list influence one of the most influential artists of a generation?

Heartfelt, analytical, and totally original, Bowie's Bookshelf is one part epic reading guide and one part biography of a music legend.

Author: John O'Connell
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 11/12/2019
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.10h x 5.60w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781982112547


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 09/30/2019 pg. 97
Booklist 11/01/2019 pg. 12
Shelf Awareness 11/29/2019
Library Journal 01/10/2020 pg. 1

About the Author
John O'Connell is a former Senior Editor at Time Out and music columnist for The Face. He is now freelance writing mainly for The Times and The Guardian. He interviewed David Bowie in New York in 2002. He lives in south London.


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