The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad
by Sean Wilentz (Editor); Greil Marcus (Editor)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- slight dampstain/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0393059545
- ISBN 13
- 9780393059540
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About This Item
Praised by Robbie Robertson of The Band as "a classic & a ticket to ride," The Rose & the Briar assembles an astonishing group of writers and artists: Paul Muldoon, Stanley Crouch, R. Crumb, Jon Langford of the Mekons, Sharyn McCrumb, Luc Sante, Joyce Carol Oates, Dave Marsh, and more than a dozen other novelists, essayists, performers, and critics; to explore the ineffable power of the American ballad. From "Barbara Allen" through "The Wreck of the Old 97" to contemporary ballads by Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, The Rose & the Briar is, as Geoffrey O'Brien hailed in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, "a book full of internal echoes and provocative coincidences," featuring "historical investigation, shamanistic trance-journey, memoir, novella and cartoon," where "names and costumes change, soldiers become cowboys, demon lovers become backwoods murderer; the voices are unmistakably distinct but they share a common ground." 25 illustrations
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- Bookseller
- a brennan bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- biblio51
- Title
- The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad
- Author
- Sean Wilentz (Editor); Greil Marcus (Editor)
- Book Condition
- Used - slight dampstain
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393059545
- ISBN 13
- 9780393059540
- Publisher
- W W Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- LCCN
- 2004014811