Descripción
Imagina a un amigo que comparte contigo sus libros favoritos. Ahora imagina que ese amigo es alguien como David Bowie.Tres años antes de morir, David Bowie revelo los 100 libros que habian forjado su carrera y cambiado su forma de ver el mundo. Este es su legado y una invitacion irresistible a sumergirte de verdad en los libros y en su poder para transformarnos.«Un libro absolutamente brillante.»-nbsp;CAITLIN MORANENGLISH DESCRIPTIONNamed one ofnbsp;Entertainment Weeklys 12 biggest music memoirs this fall. An artful and wildly enthralling path for Bowie fans in particular and book lovers in general.nbsp;Publishers Weeklynbsp;(starred review)The only art Ill ever study is stuff that I can steal from. ?David BowieThree 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 OConnell studies each book on Bowies list and contextualizes it in the artists life and work. How did the power imbued in a single suit of armor innbsp;The Iliadnbsp;impact a man who loved costumes, shifting identity, and the siren song of the alter-ego? How didnbsp;The Gnostic Gospelsnbsp;inform Bowies own hazy personal cosmology? How did the poems of T.S. Eliot and Frank OHara, the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov and Anthony Burgess, the comics ofnbsp;The Beanonbsp;andnbsp;The Viz, and the groundbreaking politics of James Baldwin influence Bowies 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,nbsp;Bowies Bookshelfnbsp;is one part epic reading guide and one part biography of a music legend.
