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1 online resource (160 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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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 -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Musicians -- Fiction.
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Musicians. |
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Fiction.
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Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. |
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Short stories, American.
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Electronic books.
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Boast, Will. Power ballads. Iowa City, Ia : University of Iowa Press, ©2011 9781609380427 (DLC) 2011924839 (OCoLC)719427908 |
| ISBN |
9781609380434 (electronic book) |
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1609380436 (electronic book) |
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9781609380427 |
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1609380428 |
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