Music and Men: The Life and Loves of Harriet Cohen
by Helen Fry
- Used
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- ISBN 10
- 0750948175
- ISBN 13
- 9780750948173
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About This Item
Hardcover Cloth 320 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Fine Very Good. Presumed First edition 2008. Handsome black boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
It was during the turbulent decade of World War I that the intensely gifted and beautiful Harriet Cohen established herself as a pianist. Enjoying huge success in her professional life, she was the first person outside the Soviet Union to play the music of the modern Soviet composers and was a huge success in America and throughout Europe.
Her beauty and talent made her one of the most talked-about and photographed musicians of her day. Yet it was in her private life that the story of this extraordinarily talented young woman becomes one of the greatest love stories of all time. Her passionate love affair with the composer Sir Arnold Bax spanned more than 30 years.
Their infatuation was played out against the backdrop of World War I, and was peppered with betrayal, lust, and tragedy. Their letters, published here for the first time, are among the most explicit of any written during that time and are staggering in their passion and poetry.
Brilliant author Helen Fry tells for the first time the remarkable story of this forgotten woman. Music and Men tells of Harriet Cohen's friendships—and relationships—with leading figures from every walk of life, from George Bernard Shaw to D.H. Lawrence and H.G. Wells, Sir Edward Elgar, Albert Einstein, Arnold Bennett, Vaughan Williams, Ramsey MacDonald, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Offering an insight into the politics, arts, and culture of the day, this incredible new biography tells the poignant story of a beautiful, possessive, flirtatious, and determined musician.
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- Seller
- River House Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 657051
- Title
- Music and Men: The Life and Loves of Harriet Cohen
- Author
- Helen Fry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0750948175
- ISBN 13
- 9780750948173
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Place of Publication
- Stroud
- Date Published
- 2008
- Pages
- 320
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; First Editions;
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