Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
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New York : Gallery Books, 2019.
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
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New York : Gallery Books, 2019.
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xxx, 284 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-281).
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""The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from." --David Bowie // Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. // In 100 short essays, music journalist John O'Connell studies each book on Bowie's list and contextualizes it in the artist's life and work. How did the power imbued in a single suit of armor in The Iliad impact a man who loved costumes, shifting identity, and the siren song of the alter-ego? How did The Gnostic Gospels inform Bowie's own hazy personal cosmology? How did the poems of T.S. Eliot and Frank O'Hara, the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov and Anthony Burgess, the comics of The Beano and The Viz, and the groundbreaking politics of James Baldwin influence Bowie's lyrics, his sound, his artistic outlook? How did the 100 books on this list influence one of the most influential artists of a generation? // Heartfelt, analytical, and totally original, Bowie's Bookshelf is one part epic reading guide and one part biography of a music legend"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

O'Connell, J. (2019). Bowie's bookshelf: the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life (First Gallery Books hardcover edition.). Gallery Books.

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O'Connell, John. 2019. Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books That Changed David Bowie's Life. Gallery Books.

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O'Connell, John. Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books That Changed David Bowie's Life Gallery Books, 2019.

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O'Connell, John. Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books That Changed David Bowie's Life First Gallery Books hardcover edition., Gallery Books, 2019.

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