Power ballads /
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Author / Creator: | Boast, Will. |
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Imprint: | Iowa City, Ia : University of Iowa Press, ©2011. |
Description: | 1 online resource (160 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Iowa short fiction award Iowa short fiction award. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11347772 |
ISBN: | 9781609380434 1609380436 9781609380427 1609380428 |
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Digital file characteristics: | data file |
Notes: | Print version record. |
Summary: | ℗¡Real musicians don & 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. |
Other form: | Print version: Boast, Will. Power ballads. Iowa City, Ia : University of Iowa Press, ©2011 9781609380427 |
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