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- Publisher: Perseus Books Group
- ISBN: 0306811065
- WAPI (Tower ID): 101339024
- Release Date: February 20, 2002
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #269820 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #9143 in Biography & Autobiography (See Top 100 Biography & Autobiography Bestsellers)
- #1743 in General (See Top 100 General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionReview"The composer Ned Rorem has been keeping, and publishing, a diary for more than five decades and, as Edmund White notes in an affectionate introduction, it gets better as he gets older and pettier. This latest instalment is crammed with the kind of detail only obsessed diarists provide....There is no pretence in this invigorating book, despite the dropping of a thousand famous names. Ned Rorem is a chameleon, but he's not acting." "...Rorem has given us a scorchingly honest record of one of the presiding spirits of our time." "Although Rorem can still supply the witty anecdote (a dinner with Nancy Reagan, for example), this may be his most unguarded literary effort. In no other book has his quiet skill at memorializing the rounds of daily life--going to concerts, cooking for friends, noting his dog's birthday--been so welcome or so needed." "One of the great diarists in our language....[His works] delight, amuse, and enlarge our understanding of music and of life." "The diary bulges with gossip, cattiness, good sense, complaints of every stripe, and the pathos of an aging man whom we see losing his mother, his father, several close friends, and (to AIDS) his beloved companion of three decades....It's a hypnotically readable narrative, which mellows closer to pathos as it advances into old age." Publisher's noteNow in paperback: "One of the great diarists.... [His works] delight, amuse, and enlarge our understanding of music and of life. AnnotationNed Rorem's diary covers the years during which both his beloved parents die (as do many old friends, including Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, Harold Brodkey), he himself suffers from various ailments as he enters his 70s, and, finally, Jim Holmes, his companion of many years, dies from a combination of AIDS and cancer. Rorem is never less than honest as he describes this tumultuous, difficult, and often heartbreaking period in his life, and his striking insights into music--his own and others'--are marked, as always, with his quirky individuality and biting wit. A 2001 nominee for a Lambda Literary Award. If You Enjoy "Lies (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Lies (Paperback)" by Ned Rorem (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! General Bestsellers
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