by Geoff Dyer · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439728085
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«Pero hermoso» is Geoff Dyer's jazz book, published by Literatura Random House in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
«Pero hermoso» brings together eight imagined stories about jazz legends such as Lester Young, Bud Powell, Charlie Mingus, Chet Baker, Ben Webster, Thelonious Monk and Art Pepper, strung together by a car journey by Duke Ellington and Harry Carney. Geoff Dyer draws on photographs and texts to evoke their lives.
The book was originally published as But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz in 1992, won the Somerset Maugham Award, and in this Spanish edition the translation is by Cruz Rodríguez Juiz.
For readers interested in jazz and literary fiction; it is also an approach to the history of the genre through its protagonists.
Geoff Dyer is an English author. He has written a number of novels and non-fiction books, some of which have won literary awards. Dyer was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005.
