31 SONGS
Book ID/图书代码： 06580005B02163
English Summary/英文概要： ’Intimate, funny and wise ... Hornby at his most persuasive’
Tim Adams, Observer
’Songs are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else. I don’t listen to classical music or jazz very often, and when people ask me what music I like, I find it very difficult to reply, because they usually want names of people, and I can only give them song titles.’
Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs - most of them loved, some of them once loved, all of them significant to him - beginning with Teenage Fanclub’s ’Your love Is the Place Where I Come From’, ending with Patti Smith’s ’Pissing in a River’, and encompassing singers as varied as Van Morrison and Nelly Furtado, songs as different as ’Thunder Road’ and ’Puff the Magic Dragon’ (reggae style).
As the former pop music critic on the New Yorker and author of bestselling High Fidelity, Hornby puts forward a passionate defense of pop. He discusses, among other things, guitar solos, singers whose teeth whistle, the sort of music you hear in the Body Shop, songs that drive you pleasurably potty, tracks you imagine loosing your virginity to and whether it’s okay to walk out of a bad gig.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “有趣、煽动性强、可读性高。它可不只是讲音乐，还有Hornby，我们自己以及生命的意义。是一部成功之作。”-----Tim Lott《标准晚报》
“我只听歌曲，对别的一切几乎完全排斥，我不常听古典或者爵士乐，如果有人问我喜欢什么音乐，我会觉得很难做回答，因为他们想要我说出歌手，而我只记得歌名。”
Nick Hornby借着三十一首他所钟爱的歌曲---不管是现在喜欢的还是曾经喜欢过的，表达了他对音乐与人生的感慨。每一篇激情盎然的小片段都是赞美歌曲给他带来的无限快乐。《音乐与人生》对于Hornby来说，就是人人梦寐以求的、可以陪伴你走过人生的一盘原声大碟------其中还收录了作者本人在《纽约人》专栏上发表的音乐随笔，这些文章首度在英国问世。
曾经是《纽约人报》的流行音乐评论家的Hornby极力为流行音乐辩护。在《音乐与人生》中，作者尽情畅谈，他既谈到了吉他独奏，会用牙齿吹口哨的歌手，还说到了那一首首让你如痴如醉的歌曲，以及那些让你付出贞操的原声大碟。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Nick Hornby was born in 1957. He is the author of three novels: High Fidelity, About a Boy and How to be Good, and one previous work on non-fiction, Fever Pitch. All four books have been international bestsellers and are available in Penguin. He has also edited two anthologies, My Favourite Year and Speaking with the Angel. In 1999 he was awarded the E.M.Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives and works in Highbury, North London.
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