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7-21-09 Hardcover GOOD Clean, unread hardcover with modest shelfwear including a torn dust jacket and a publisher's mark to one edge-otherwise Nice! 1.2 lbs.
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2009 Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket 9780252034442. Text clean and tight; Music in American Life; 1 x 9.4 x 6.3 Inches; 204 pages.
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Urbana, Illinois 2009 Hard Cover First Printing Fine in Fine jacket 8vo-over 7"-9" tall. "In GEORGE GERSHWIN: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT, Walter Rimler makes use of fresh souces,
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George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself—no family of his own and no real home in music.
He and his siblings received little love from their mother and no direction from their father. Older brother and lyricist Ira managed to create a home when he married Leonore Strunsky, a hard-edged woman who lived for wealth and status. The closest George came to domesticity was through his longtime relationship with Kay Swift. She was his lover, musical confidante, and fellow composer. But she remained married to another man while he went endlessly from woman to woman. Only in the...