| Description |
1 online resource (160 pages) |
| Series |
Iowa short fiction award |
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Iowa short fiction award.
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| Contents |
Sitting in -- Power ballads -- Heart of hearts *** 1/2 -- Sidemen -- Dead weight -- Mr. Fern, freestyle -- The bridge -- Beginners -- Lost coast -- Coda |
| Summary |
℗¡Real musicians don & rsquo;t sign autographs, date models, or fly in private jets. They spend their lives in practice rooms and basement clubs or toiling in the obscurity of coffee-shop gigs, casino jobs, and the European festival circuit. The ten linked stories in Power Ballads are devoted to this unheard virtuoso: the working musician.℗¡From the wings of sold-out arenas to hip-hop studios to polka bars, these stories are born out of a nocturnal world where music is often simply work, but also where it can, in rare moments, become a source of grace and transcendence, speaking about the things w |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Musicians -- Fiction
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Short stories, American.
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FICTION -- General.
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Musicians
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Short stories, American
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| Genre/Form |
short stories.
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Fiction
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Short stories
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Short stories.
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Nouvelles.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781609380434 |
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1609380436 |
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