{"product_id":"but-beautiful-a-book-about-jazz-9780312429478","title":"But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"May be the best book ever written about jazz.\"--David Thomson, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However, music is the driving force of \u003ci\u003eBut Beautiful, \u003c\/i\u003e and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoff Dyer\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eOut of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWays of Telling, \u003c\/i\u003ea critical study of John Berger; \u003ci\u003eThe Missing of the Somme\u003c\/i\u003e, about World War I; and the novels\u003ci\u003e Paris Trance, The Color of Memory, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Search.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50719071568146,"sku":"9780312429478","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f74900b7-fcd4-4599-b15e-e270d572e524.jpg?v=1734657688","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/but-beautiful-a-book-about-jazz-9780312429478","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}