MUSIC FROM BIG PINK
Book ID/图书代码： 02000018C00051
English Summary/英文概要： ’I love John Niven’s writing - OBVIOUSLY - but came late to his first book, and was blown away by what vivid, delicate time-travel it is. Every The Band fan in the world MUST read it - it’s like living in the music. Just smoky, ravishing magic’ Caitlin Moran
Timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the release of The Band’s debut album, Music from Big Pink is John Niven’s first novel - a heady blend of drugs, music, sixties counter-culture and intoxicating youth.
Greg Keltner is a 23-year-old drug-dealer and wannabe musician. Through his eyes, we witness the gestation of a record that will go on to cast its spell across five decades - bewitching and inspiring artists as disparate as The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Wilco and Mercury Rev.
Music From Big Pink is faction: real people like Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Bob Dylan and Albert Grossman rub shoulders with fictional characters and imagined scenarios. Featuring a new foreword from Barney Hoskyns and a new introduction from the author, Music from Big Pink gives us a unique and vivid insight into the birth and legacy of The Band’s debut album.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： ‘我很喜欢John Niven’s 的文章，显然比起第一部略显逊色，但还是被起生动而细致的时间旅行所震撼。每一位喜欢乐队粉丝都应该读一下这本书，宛如置身于音乐的世界。《Music from Big Pink》是约翰·尼文的第一部小说，它将毒品、音乐、六十年代的反主流文化和醉人的青春混合在一起，时间正好与乐队首张专辑发行五十周年相吻合
—— 媒体点评
格雷格·凯尔特纳(GregKeltner)是一名23岁的毒贩，同时也是一位狂热的音乐家。透过他的眼睛，我们见证了将持续50年的一个记录的诞生，这段以音乐历史进程，吸引和激励着像披头士、埃里克·克莱普顿、Wilco乡村摇滚乐队和水星逆转乐团这样迥然不同的艺术家。
《Music From Big Pink》是一部纪实小说：理查德·曼纽尔(Richard Manuel)、里克·丹科(Rick Danko)、鲍勃·迪伦(Bob Dylan)和阿尔伯特·格罗斯曼(Albert Grossman)等真人与虚构的人物和想象的场景并肩而行。以巴尼·霍斯金斯(Barney Hoskyns)的新前言和作者的新介绍为特色，让我们对“The Band’”首张专辑的诞生和历史遗产有了独特而生动的见解。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：A moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and place but in distilling one young man’s clichéd and minor destiny into something approaching tragedy . Captures not just some of the dreams of that bygone era, but the way those dreams died (New York Times Book Review)
A book to awaken a deeper appreciation of The Band’s sweet poetry ... A story that might illuminate an entire period . Will be admired by anyone who’s interested in the era that made our own (Andrew O’Hagan)
Like the album itself, Niven’s story occupies that 60s fault line where hedonism and optimism turn to failure and melancholy . Niven’s beautifully tragic mini-novel crawls inside the lonesome core of this one-off album, penning a heart-broken postcard from a past he never knew (Mojo)
As evocative as it is gripping (Observer)
Irresistible (Independent)
’More than an oblique work of criticism. It is itself, like its subject, a grand work of art (Ukula Magazine)
About the Author/作者介绍： 中文推荐/Sandy2019-10-14
Format:HARDCOVER
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