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Title: Wondrous Strange: The Life And Art Of Glenn Gould

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Hardcover, 2004

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Language:        English

Size
Length:        528 Pages
Weight:        1.8 Pounds
Height:         9.3 Inches
Width:          6.3 Inches
Thickness:    1.5 Inches



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"As Kevin Bazzana points out at the beginning of WONDROUS STRANGE, his supremely thorough and illuminating biography, Gould has endured....Bazzana is conscious of dealing with an extraordinary individual, one whose extraordinariness was bound up with his mercuriality and multiplicity. It is a Gouldian strength of this book that it acknowledges paradox...."
(06/14/2004)
"Bazzana's portrait--the most balanced yet--ingeniously provides contexts for Gould's behavior....[Bazzana is] a keen deflater of myths....Still, those for whom the eccentricities are half the fun will find endless delight in the meticulous accounts...."
(06/14/2004)
"Some biographers fawn over their subject, but Bazzana accepts the pianist's failings along with his genius....There will be other books on Gould..., but I doubt if there will be one that is more thorough and entertaining than this....Anyone reading Kevin Bazzana's biography will, by the end, have a much clearer picture of Canadian musical life in the twentieth century--and for that alone I am grateful. Gould was its star, however, and WONDROUS STRANGE is a fit description of that star's brief but dazzling transit."
(08/20/2004)
"[T]he best account so far of [Gould's] life: lucid, balanced, intelligent, and wide-ranging."
(10/07/2004)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Wondrous Strange: The Life And Art Of Glenn Gould and it was written by Kevin Bazzana. This edition of Wondrous Strange: The Life And Art Of Glenn Gould is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is May 2005 and it has a suggested retail price of $39.95. There are 528 pages in the book and it was published by Oxford Univ Pr. The 10 digit ISBN is 0195182464 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780195182460. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.