Description
| Product ID: | 9781949590197 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | (Low)life |
| Subtitle: | A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-Fixing, and The Mob |
| Authors: | Author: Charles Farrell |
| Page Count: | 312 |
| Subjects: | Popular music, Jazz, True crime, Boxing, True crime, Boxing |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In (Low)life, Charles Farrell lets the public in on his gripping, harrowing, rich, and often amusing life that transverses his path from a teenage jazz prodigy, to mob-involved boxing fight-fixer, to his business partnership with the legendary Floyd Patterson, to fleeing a mob contract on his life, and to bargaining his way back to a life where he returned to jazz and collaborated with all-time greats, including Ornette Coleman. Along the way, Farrell''s many brushes with iconic celebrities provide readers with eye-opening and revealing encounters that will surprise and delight. “Unbelievably good... amazing scenes, heartbreaking scenes. The dialogue is so good in this book. I mean, people talk about the dialogue of Don DeLillo, how authentic it is… the dialogue in a book like this is better than the dialogue in Don DeLillo... Literary masterpieces in storytelling... Just fucking nailing it, again and again.”—Book Rants “With deadpan humor, whip-smart insights and some damn fine sentences, Charles Farrell has written a classic chronicle of life in the twilight world, on par with masters of the genre like Damon Runyon, Mezz Mezzrow, Nat Hentoff and Nick Pileggi. A truly great read.”—Debby Applegate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, and author of Madam: The Life of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz-Age
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| Imprint Name: | Hamilcar Publications |
| Publisher Name: | Hamilcar Publications |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-07-01 |
