Power ballads
By: Will Boast
Series: The Iowa short fiction award
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781609380427
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Real musicians don't sign autographs, date models, or fly in private jets. They spend their lives in practice rooms and basement clubs or toiling in the obscurity of coffee-shop gigs, casino jobs, and the European festival circuit. The ten linked stories in "Power Ballads" are devoted to this unheard virtuoso: the working musician.
Table of contents: title: Sitting in; title: Power ballads; title: Heart of hearts; title: Sidemen; title: Dead weight; title: Mr. Fern, freestyle; title: The bridge; title: Beginners; title: Lost coast; title: Coda.