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Young Man With a Horn
by Baker, Dorothy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Page edges browning
- Seller
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Alnwick, Northumberland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Jazz Book Club. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Page edges browning. 1957. Reprint. Red hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 286pp. A novel based on the life of the great coronet player Bix Beiderbecke. .
Synopsis
Dorothy Baker (1907–1968) was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1907 and raised in California. After graduating from UCLA , she traveled in France, where she began a novel and, in 1930, married the poet Howard Baker. The couple moved back to California, and Baker completed an MA in French, later teaching at a private school. After having a few short stories published, she turned to writing full time, despite, she would later claim, being “seriously hampered by an abject admiration for Ernest Hemingway.” In 1938, she published Young Man with a Horn , which was awarded the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1942 and, the next year, published Trio , a novel whose frank portrayal of a lesbian relationship proved too scandalous for the times; Baker and her husband adapted the novel as a play in 1944, but it was quickly shut down because of protests. Her final novel, Cassandra at the Wedding (also published as an NYRB Classic), examined the relationship between two exceptionally close sisters, whom Howard Baker asserted were based on both Baker herself and the couple’s two daughters. Baker died in 1968 of cancer. Gary Giddins was the jazz critic for The Village Voice , where his column “Weather Bird” ran for thirty years, and is presently director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has contributed articles about music and movies to The New York Times , The New Yorker , The Atlantic , The Nation , Esquire , The New York Sun , and Vanity Fair , among others. He has written twelve books, including Visions of Jazz , which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998, and Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams . His most recent book is Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema .
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Details
- Seller
- Barter Books Ltd
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- d2281bba
- Title
- Young Man With a Horn
- Author
- Baker, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Red hardback cloth cover
- Book Condition
- Used - G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Page edges browning
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Jazz Book Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Fiction, Music
Terms of Sale
Barter Books Ltd
We run a 'no quibble' returns policy. If we have made any error of collation or missed any significant flaw, or if we have failed to describe the condition honestly and accurately, we refund the cost of the book in full, plus the cost of outward shipping, plus the cost of your return shipping.
About the Seller
Barter Books Ltd
Biblio member since 2004
Alnwick, Northumberland
About Barter Books Ltd
Since its opening in 1991 within the premises of a small model factory at Alnwick Station, Barter Books has grown well beyond original expectations. Starting off in what was the ticket and parcel office of the original Station, the bookshop has expanded down the platforms and through the waiting rooms, until it now covers over one-quarter of the whole Station site. This translates into an area exceeding 8000 square feet and containing over 350,000 books on more than three miles of shelving. Also the Famous Writers Mural - 40 feet long by 18 feet high, the similarly sized Railway Mural and the Tennyson Installation. The bookshop also sells secondhand videos and music (CDs, LPs, cassettes, sheet music), as well as a small but growing section of artists' prints. And then there are the shop's many extra features! These include an open fire in the winter, coffee and cookies, a model railway running above the book columns, a mini-cybercafe, generous seating and browsing areas, a children's room, and dozens of glass cases containing many of the more interesting antiquarian books. The latest feature is the Station Buffet with hot and cold food and a fine selection of coffees and teas. A final note: during the enlargement process the owners took (and are taking!) particular pleasure in restoring, as they can, various features of the Station. This so far includes the original North Eastern Railway cast iron fireplaces, two of the Station clocks, a drinking fountain, and various waiting rooms. Most dramatic of all, however, was the restoration of part of the glass roof. That was when we all stood about watching as the sun came streaming in for the first time in many years to bring the wonderful old Station visually back to life.
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