The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll
7 best books like The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll (Charlie Gillett): The Fire Next Time, Maldoror and the Complete Works, Darkness at Noon, The Waste Land, McTeague, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock, Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice,...
Maldoror and the Complete Works
| Author | Comte de Lautréamont |
Andre Breton described Maldoror as -the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential.- Little is known about its pseudonymous author, aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay (1846) and early death in Paris (1870). Lautreamont bewildered his contemporaries,...
| Author | Arthur Koestler |
| ISBN | 0553265954 |
Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0393974995 |
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot's own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.
For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition...
| Author | Frank Norris |
| ISBN | 0451528913 |
"I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth," declared Frank Norris, shortly before his death at the age of thirty-two. Of his novels, none have shocked the reading...
| Author | Nik Cohn |
| ISBN | 0802138306 |
Written in 1968 and revised in 1972, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom was the first book to celebrate the language and the primal essence of rock 'n' roll. But it was much more than that. It was a cogent history of an unruly era, from the rise of Bill Haley to the death of Jimi Hendrix.
And while telling...
Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star
| Author | Ian Hunter |
| ISBN | 1897783094 |
I read Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star by Ian Hunter back in the 1970s however all I could remember was that I'd enjoyed it. In the intervening years its reputation has grown. Q Magazine reckon it "may well be the best rock book ever" and whilst I think that might be overstating it a bit, it's certainly a brilliant...
