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Synopsis
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, author, and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters shares his diary of the years between sixty-two and seventy-five years of age. 10,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Since 1966 and the publication of The Paris Diary, Ned Rorem has led a dual career as a composer and a writer. Time magazine has called him "the world's best composer of art songs," and Joyce Carol Oates has said that "his prose is as fresh and unfailingly interesting as his music." His five volumes of diaries, together with his memoir Knowing When to Stop, are a unique contribution to the art of autobiography and to America's cultural and social history; his many collections of essays on music have won him three ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards. The current president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Ned Rorem divides his time between Manhattan and Nantucket.
Reviews
"...no other book has his quiet skill at memorializing the rounds of daily life been so welcome or so needed."
Rorem is not only one of the greatest American composers of this century, he's also one of our greatest diarists. Rorem won the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his orchestral suite "Air Music." He's also known and befriended just about everyone artistic and famous in the twentieth century, which is why his diaries (he's published four other volumes) are often so juicy and fun to read. However, this installation of his journal differs in tone from the others. Still as gossipy, still as catty, there's definitely a feel of autumn. His life is waning, and his lover has been diagnosed as HIV-positive. As Rorem deals with his relationship, he also deals with the death of his friends, and (in his mind) the death of American music as we know it (his opinions are strong). One of the most human looks at how HIV affects a relationship, there's nothing romantic about this aspect. Throughout it all, Rorem never loses his courage. It's real and engaging, and that's what makes it so wonderful to read. Michael Spinella
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. This latest installment of Ned Rorem's diary opens in 1986, when the author is sixty-two, and closes in 1999, when he is seventy-five. Though Rorem remains as energetic as ever during these years -- new books written, new music composed -- the tone of this volume is autumnal: His life and his world are winding down. He mourns the passing of dear friends, endures the indignities of growing old, and notes with bitterness the collapse of the taste and standards that once defined his artistic circle. As AIDS becomes an epidemic, he traces its grim course through the gay community and through the discourse of the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. Lies is an anthology of forms, each entry a carefully chosen, brightly colored tile in a literary mosaic, with all that readers have come to expect from Rorem: erotic fantasies, gratuitous slights, aphorisms, indiscretions, program notes, puns, punditry, and beauty. Seller Inventory # 00093636464
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. This latest installment of Ned Rorem's diary opens in 1986, when the author is sixty-two, and closes in 1999, when he is seventy-five. Though Rorem remains as energetic as ever during these years -- new books written, new music composed -- the tone of this volume is autumnal: His life and his world are winding down. He mourns the passing of dear friends, endures the indignities of growing old, and notes with bitterness the collapse of the taste and standards that once defined his artistic circle. As AIDS becomes an epidemic, he traces its grim course through the gay community and through the discourse of the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. Lies is an anthology of forms, each entry a carefully chosen, brightly colored tile in a literary mosaic, with all that readers have come to expect from Rorem: erotic fantasies, gratuitous slights, aphorisms, indiscretions, program notes, puns, punditry, and beauty. Seller Inventory # CIN1582430578VG
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