What Is It All but Luminous Notes from an Underground Man
Language: English
Published by Knopf, New York, NY, 2017
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241 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Near fine dust jacket. Jacket not price clipped. Published Sept 2017. First Edition / First Printing.
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- Title
- What Is It All but Luminous Notes from an Underground Man
- Author
- Garfunkel, Art
- Publisher
- Knopf, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Very Good to Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine Dust Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0385352476
- ISBN 13
- 9780385352475
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
&;Bookreporter
"It's hard to imagine any single word that would accurately describe this book . . . an entertaining volume that's more fun to read than a conventional memoir might have been."
&;The Wall Street Journal
 "A charming book of prose and poetry printed in a digitalized version of his handwriting . . . witty, candid, and wildly imaginative . . . A highly intelligent man trying to make sense of his extraordinary life."
&;Associated Press
From the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon & Garfunkel, a memoir (of sorts)&;moving, lyrical impressions, interspersed throughout a narrative, punctuated by poetry, musings, lists of resonant books loved and admired, revealing a life and the making of a musician, that show us, as well, the evolution of a man, a portrait of a life-long friendship and of a collaboration that became the most successful singing duo in the roiling age that embraced, and was defined by, their pathfinding folk-rock music.
In What Is It All but Luminous, Art Garfunkel writes about growing up in the 1940s and &;50s (son of a traveling salesman, listening as his father played Enrico Caruso records), a middle-class Jewish boy, living in a redbrick semi-attached house on Jewel Avenue in Kew Gardens, Queens.
He writes of meeting Paul Simon, the kid who made Art laugh (they met at their graduation play, Alice in Wonderland; Paul was the White Rabbit; Art, the Cheshire Cat). Of their being twelve at the birth of rock&;n&;roll (&;it was rhythm and blues. It was black. I was captured and so was Paul&;), of a demo of their song, Hey Schoolgirl for seven dollars and the actual record (with Paul&;s father on bass) going to #40 on the charts.
He writes about their becoming Simon & Garfunkel, ruling the pop charts from the age of sixteen, about not being a natural performer but more a thinker, an underground man.
He writes of the hit songs; touring; about being an actor working with directors Mike Nichols (&;the greatest of them all&;), about choosing music over a PhD in mathematics.
And he writes about his long-unfolding split with Paul, and how and why it evolved, and after; learning to perform on his own . . . and about being a husband, a father and much more.
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