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Author | : Paul Goldstein |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2012-05-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466802278 |
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Fueled by alcohol and legal brilliance, Michael Seeley once oversaw his law firm's most successful litigation. Until it all fell apart. Recklessness and overreach cost him his wife, his job, and likely the life of his last client, a Chinese dissident journalist. Havana Requiem, the latest Seeley novel from the acclaimed author Paul Goldstein, opens after a year's sobriety has earned Seeley back most of what he lost: the partnership in his Manhattan law firm, if not his corner office; the wary respect of most of his partners; the lucrative clients—but not the gin-sharpened passion. Then the renowned Cuban musician Héctor Reynoso enters his office with a simple request: help him and other composers who defined Cuba's musical golden age of the 1940s and '50s—the music that made the Buena Vista Social Club internationally famous—reclaim the copyright to their work. When Reynoso goes missing, Seeley's reluctant promise to help draws him progressively deeper into Havana's violent underbelly and a decades-long conspiracy that runs from the partners in his firm to the U.S. State Department to Cuba's security police, who are willing to do anything to suppress the truth. In the heat of Havana, Seeley will lose himself to his worst and best passions as his pursuit of justice becomes a desperate gambit to save not only his composers but the stunning Amaryll, who is playing her own dangerous game.
Author | : Marc Frank |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813047846 |
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In Cuban Revelations, Marc Frank offers a first-hand account of daily life in Cuba at the turn of the twenty-first century, the start of a new and dramatic epoch for islanders and the Cuban diaspora. A U.S.-born journalist who has called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Frank observed in person the best days of the revolution, the fall of the Soviet Bloc, the great depression of the 1990s, the stepping aside of Fidel Castro, and the reforms now being devised by his brother. Examining the effects of U.S. policy toward Cuba, Frank analyzes why Cuba has entered an extraordinary, irreversible period of change and considers what the island's future holds. The enormous social engineering project taking place today under Raúl's leadership is fraught with many dangers, and Cuban Revelations follows the new leader's efforts to overcome bureaucratic resistance and the fears of a populace that stand in his way. In addition, Frank offers a colorful chronicle of his travels across the island's many and varied provinces, sharing candid interviews with people from all walks of life. He takes the reader outside the capital to reveal how ordinary Cubans live and what they are thinking and feeling as fifty-year-old social and economic taboos are broken. He shares his honest and unbiased observations on extraordinary positive developments in social matters, like healthcare and education, as well as on the inefficiencies in the Cuban economy.
Author | : Helio Orovio |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004-03-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780822332121 |
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DIVThe definitive guide to the composers, artists, bands, musical instruments, dances, and institutions of Cuban music./div
Author | : Martha Furman Schleifer |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 763 |
Release | : 2016-01-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0810888718 |
Download Latin American Classical Composers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Now in its third edition, Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary provides a singular English-language resource for biographical information on hundreds of composers from Central and South America and the Hispanic Caribbean. Painstakingly gathered from a wide variety of sources, the information updates and expands previous editions and fills in the gaps left by the other major English-language music dictionaries and encyclopedias. Entries provide biographical data comprising full names, birth and death dates and locations, background, education, and training, as well as selective works lists more than 2,300 composers. An index of composers by country and women composers of Latin America complement the volume. An essential part of any music library, Latin American Classical Composers is an invaluable reference for librarians, musicologists, ethnomusicologists, researchers, and music students.
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Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Music |
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Download International Music and Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Peter Wolfe |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780739120026 |
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James Ellroy's prose, in many ways as complex as any in the Western literary canon, strung together sensational stories of crime and catastrophe. The significance of his writing to Western culture has yet to be fully explored. Author Peter Wolfe offers us the first book-length study of Ellroy in English.
Author | : Mitchell Scott Lewis |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2012-09-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1615954198 |
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"Astrologically inclined cozy fans will find a lot to like."—Publishers Weekly Someone is bumping off rock's wrinkled royalty. The latest victim? Freddie Finger, 63-year-old lead singer for Rocket Fire. Seeking answers, Freddie's daughter, movie actress Vivian Younger, retains astrologer detective David Lowell to help catch her father's killer. Freddie wasn't well liked, and Lowell has plenty of suspects. Among them are Freddie's ex-wives, who seem more intent on killing each other than anyone else. And his disgruntled band members, angry because Freddie's solo career was threatening the band's future. Then there is his greedy manager, busy promoting the death of a rock star. Or could his killer have been the musician whose career Freddie sabotaged many years ago? With the help of his red-haired assistant Sarah, master hacker and psychic Mort, and his driver and bodyguard Andy, Lowell sifts through the birth charts of the characters and follows the clues to a surprising ending.
Author | : Yousuf Karsh |
Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1567923593 |
Download Regarding Heroes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Collects many highlights of Karsh's career, one hundred iconic portraits in all. The introductory essay by David Travis takes serious critical stock of the importance of Karsh's work and his place in the pantheon of major portrait artists. Rounding out the volume are brief biographical essays on each subject that include Karsh's own perceptive comments about his experience. From publisher description.
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Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Music |
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Author | : William Lines Hubbard |
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Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Music |
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