Ergebnis für "Jazz" in Romanbiografien

In contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist. Our narrator has a lot going on. Her friend Eva’s cat is missing—also, she wonders, where is Eva’s husband. Their other friend Fanny...

"Café Jazz en Destripador" es un triple salto mortal literario del interesante autor Luis Artigue. En él reinterpreta con virtuosismo la biografía de Miles Davis en clave de literatura pulp, reflexiona sobre la genialidad del más incontestable de los músicos de jazz de la historia, a la vez que traza líneas melodiosas al París revolucionario de 1848 sin errar una sola nota. Un atractivo ejercicio de letras y música, de historia y acción, de genios y diablos.

An airline captain crafts a riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the remarkable true life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who learned to fly at the dawn of aviation and found freedom in the air A few years after the Wright brothers’ first flight, Bessie was working the...

“Abbs has found a gripping and little-known story at the heart of one of the 20th century’s most astonishing creative moments, researched it deeply, and brought the extraordinary Joyce family and their circle in 1920s Paris to richly-imagined life.”—Emma Darwin, bestselling author of A...

“[A] shining rendition of Swift and Gershwin’s star-crossed love.” —Therese Anne Fowler, New York Times bestselling author In the vein of the New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, this fascinating and compelling novel “will have you humming, toe-tapping, and singing along with every...