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Bowie's Bookshelf - John O'Connell
Bowie's Bookshelf
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In 100 short essays, music journalist John O’Connell studies each book on Bowie’s list and contextualizes it in the artist’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... show more
In 100 short essays, music journalist John O’Connell studies each book on Bowie’s list and contextualizes it in the artist’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 Bowie’s own hazy personal cosmology? How did the poems of T.S. Eliot and Frank O’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 Bowie’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, Bowie’s Bookshelf is one part epic reading guide and one part biography of a music legend.
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ISBN: 9781982112547 (1982112547)
Publisher: Gallery Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
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Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley in exchange for a fair review. (Halloween Bingo note - I mean Bowie, costume, c'mon, if he doesn't fit no one does). 2016 was a horrible year. It started with the death of Bowie and ended with the death of Carrie Fisher. And let’s not talk about th...
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