Different Kinds of Music follows Timothy "Westy" Westmont through
six episodes from his childhood and youth, through his experiences
as an archivist and a thief, to encounters with William Faulkner's
bear in St. Louis, Hemingway's lingering ghost at Walloon Lake in
Michigan, and Phillip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus in Columbus, Ohio
itself. The narrative is sometimes funny, sometimes sad; and it
progresses in an order more interesting than the merely
chronological. Between the episodes appears a sequence of
interchapters about music, the different kinds of which define
Westmont's experience from the 1940s to the turn of the 21st
century in an idiom different from that of the narrative parts of
the book. Different, too, is the final long chapter, "Westmont as
Talbot Eastmore," in which the author of the previous five episodes
tells his own story in terms of a miniature bildungsroman which is
also an elegy for an old friend.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
