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Lou Reed Was Spanish

Manuel Vilas · 2022

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Lou Reed Was Spanish is the English translation of a novel (Lou Reed Era Español) written by Manuel Vilas. The novel resides at a busy literary intersection, being both contemporary and Spanish Gen-X; fact and fiction; memoir and biography; stylistically elevated yet colloquial; sensitive and acrimonious. As a result, Lou Reed Was Spanish is an emphatic and humorous yet recriminating and caustic literary work; it is an unsettling look, from the point of view of a rock-and-roll enthusiast maturing in his beloved Spain, at one of America's classic rock stars.This book consists of two life-stories gathered into a single narrative: that of the young Vilas, who experiences a revelation-an authentic epiphany-when, in his hometown of Barbastro during the Francoist regime of the 70s, he hears t...-Publisher

Book details

Year
2022
Language
English
Publisher
Song Bridge Project
Editions
1
ISBN
9780999754986

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