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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
New York: The Dial Press, 2003. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, gray cloth spine over white paper covered boards, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 337 pages. First edition, first printing with full number line. A nontraditional autobiography focusing on childhood "specific moments, certain people and relationships, and particular events," which resonated with the author and, in his mind, shaped his development as an adult. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy.Near fine in a fine dust-jacket. .
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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- 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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