Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David

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

Named one of Entertainment Weeklyâ€™s 12 biggest music memoirs this fall. â€œAn artful and wildly enthralling path for Bowie fans in particular and book lovers in general.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)

â€œThe only art Iâ€™ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.â€ â€•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 Oâ€™Connell studies each book on Bowieâ€™s list and contextualizes it in the artistâ€™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 Bowieâ€™s own hazy personal cosmology? How did the poems of T.S. Eliot and Frank Oâ€™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 Bowieâ€™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, Bowieâ€™s Bookshelf is one part epic reading guide and one part biography of a music legend.
Country USA
Manufacturer Gallery Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-11-12
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Gallery Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2019-11-12
Format	Kindle eBook

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

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