Headed for the Blues: A Memoir by Josef Škvorecký

Headed for the Blues: A Memoir

Josef Škvorecký

156 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction reflective medium-paced
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Is there a dissident or writer who lived under Communist rule in Czechoslovakia who wasn't a music aficionado? The blues are in the title of novelist Skvorecky's memoir, but it's jazz that gives the book its improvisatory form and its subtext: jaz...

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