The Breathless Present A Memoir in Four Movements |
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| Author:
| Vigeland, Carl |
| ISBN: | 978-1-937146-04-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Publisher: | Levellers Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $22.00 |
Book Description:
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At once a writer’s autobiography and a road book, with vivid portraits of an unusual group of people—ranging from an early mentor and one-time neighbor, the late poet Archibald MacLeish, to world renowned jazz great Wynton Marsalis (with whose bands Carl Vigeland traveled for many years) and the author’s charismatic, tormented father, also a musician—THE BREATHLESS PRESENT tells several intersecting stories in a variety of voices that mirror music’s power...
More DescriptionAt once a writer’s autobiography and a road book, with vivid portraits of an unusual group of people—ranging from an early mentor and one-time neighbor, the late poet Archibald MacLeish, to world renowned jazz great Wynton Marsalis (with whose bands Carl Vigeland traveled for many years) and the author’s charismatic, tormented father, also a musician—THE BREATHLESS PRESENT tells several intersecting stories in a variety of voices that mirror music’s power to transmute memory and affirm life.