From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Sam Quinones, the story of a demanding instrument, the determined people who play it, and the hope they offer a fractured nation.
Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, former LA Times reporter, and author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction, including New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic. "The most original writer on Mexico and the border" (San Francisco Chronicle), he lives with his family in Tennessee.
„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
Anbieter: BookOutlet, Jefferson City, TN, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: New. Hardcover. Publisher overstock, may contain remainder mark on edge. Artikel-Nr. 9781639735488B
Anzahl: Mehr als 20 verfügbar
Anbieter: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, USA
Hardback. Zustand: Good. Named a best book of the year by BookPage and California Review of Books From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Sam Quinones, the story of a demanding instrument, the determined people who play it, and the hope they offer a fractured nation. "[A] delightfully offbeat book with unexpectedly profound overtones."-The Wall Street Journal The tuba's sound is mighty, emerging, it seems, from deep in the human body. Very little music has, up until recently, been written to play to its strengths. The best the tuba seems to promise is a seat at the back of the band. No stadium shows, no Internet adulation. And yet, this horn-the youngest of all brass instruments-has captured the hearts of an inspired group of musicians ever since its invention in 1835. In The Perfect Tuba, Sam Quinones embarks on a trek to get to know American tubists. He tells the astounding stories of two men who set out to replicate the "perfect tuba," an instrument made by York & Sons in the 1930s and never since equaled; of Big Bill Bell, whose 1950s album rearranged the tuba landscape; and of Arnold Jacobs, a tuba guru at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who studied the physiology of breathing and offered rune-like nuggets of wisdom to his legions of students. Quinones also takes us through the tuba scenes of New Orleans, Orlando, Knoxville, New York City, and, most importantly, Roma, Texas, a dusty town in the Rio Grande Valley where a visionary high school marching band director fashioned a program that now regularly wins state championships and sends its students off to college. After nearly a decade on the front lines of America's battle with drug addiction, Sam Quinones delivers another story of our nation, this time brought together by the transformative power of shared joy and humble achievement. Artikel-Nr. 00106857974
Anzahl: 2 verfügbar
Anbieter: Eagle Eye Books, Decatur, GA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Used. Artikel-Nr. 911489
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Anbieter: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, USA
HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Artikel-Nr. HU-9781639735488
Anbieter: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, Vereinigtes Königreich
HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Artikel-Nr. HU-9781639735488
Anzahl: 15 verfügbar
Anbieter: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, USA
Zustand: New. . hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Artikel-Nr. 9781639735488
Anzahl: 3 verfügbar
Anbieter: Majestic Books, Hounslow, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: New. Artikel-Nr. 410588390
Anzahl: 3 verfügbar
Anbieter: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, USA
hardcover. Zustand: New. Brand New. Artikel-Nr. 1508912
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Anbieter: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.25x5.51x1.00 inches. In Stock. Artikel-Nr. __1639735488
Anzahl: 2 verfügbar
Anbieter: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.25x5.51x1.00 inches. In Stock. Artikel-Nr. xi1639735488
Anzahl: 2 verfügbar