Broken Music: A Memoir
by Sting [Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner]
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385336780
- ISBN 13
- 9780385336789
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as stimulating and intriguing to me as any songwriting I had ever done.And so Broken Music began to take shape. It is a book about the early part of my life, from childhood through adolescence, right up to the eve of my success with the Police. It is a story very few people know.I had no interest in writing a traditional autobiographical recitation of everything that's ever happened to me. Instead I found myself drawn to exploring specific moments, certain people and relationships, and particular events which still resonate powerfully for me as I try to understand the child I was, and the man I became.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020902
- Title
- Broken Music: A Memoir
- Author
- Sting [Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385336780
- ISBN 13
- 9780385336789
- Publisher
- The Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Autobiography, Rock and Roll Celebrities
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography and Biography;
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