First Night Fever - Signed

Herman Prey, with Robert Abraham

ISBN 10: 0714539988 / ISBN 13: 9780714539980

Published by Riverrun Press, NY, 1986

About this Item

Riverrun Press, NY, 1986, 288 pages. First/First in NF/NF condition, with a small ding to bottom of front board, and a small spot to last page near front edge. The DJ has a small tear to bottom flap, and a bit of shelfwear. Otherwise tight, square, clean, and unclipped (please review photos). The Author has Signed on the title page. A memoir of one of the great opera singers of the 20th century. Many B&W photos. All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. Black boards with gold lettering.

Seller Inventory # 2025034

Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Night Fever - Signed
• Publisher: Riverrun Press, NY
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714539988
• ISBN 13: 9780714539980
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First/First.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Entertainment
  • Music
  • Memoir/Biography

About this title

Synopsis

English, German (translation)

Reviews

In this, the only book about him, Prey, one of Europe's leading classical singers, has done himself a disservice, presenting himself as a self-absorbed workaholic. This is not a book of philosophy, insight, or ideas but a flatly written narrative with "laundry lists" of performances, songs, and famous people interspersed with occasional vignettes of family life (again centered around himself). Prey's sense of humor surfaces in the book's liveliest anecdote, which concerns a hilarious dialogue with a bridge worker on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridgea man who suspects him of being a would-be suicide. Prey devotes two chapers to analysis of favorite song cycles. Lay readers can skip over technical terms, but the discussions are too brief to benefit singers much. This book is for fans only. Philippa Kiraly, Cleveland
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