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1	Coming Through Slaughter more books like this by Michael Ondaatje Based on the life of cornet playing Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of the turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Ostensibly a novel, this book is also a documentary recreation of Bolden's life, expressed through a collage of fragmented memoirs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.02! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Rock Star more books like this by Jackie Collins Marcus Citroen is powerful figure in the music industry, a man who controls the lives of three rock stars whom he helped climb the slippery slope to fame. Their lives, their triumphs and defeats, their loves and their losses, are all detailed in this novel of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Where Is Joe Merchant?: A Novel Tale more books like this by Jimmy Buffett Frank Bama scrapes a living flying an ancient battered seaplane for anyone who will pay for his fuel. He meets up with an old girlfriend, Trevor Kane - an heiress who is ready to blow a fortune to search for her missing rock-star brother. Jimmy Buffet is the author of "Tales from Margaritaville". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Lyre of Orpheus more books like this by Robertson Davies This is the final volume in "The Cornish Trilogy" which began with "The Rebel Angels" and continued with "What's Bred in the Bone"(shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize). It describes the production of an opera and how the participants find its story uncannily mirrored in their own lives. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Panama more books like this by Thomas McGuane Declining celebrity Chet Pomeroy, attempts to win back Catherine, the girl whom he married (or perhaps did not marry) in Panama several years before. His quest for Catherine takes him to Key West, Florida, a centre of commercialism and corruption where nightmares stalk his waking hours. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Body & Soul CL more books like this by Frank Conroy The saga of Claude Rawlings, child prodigy, from the 1940s onward, as he finds himself transformed by his talent. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Pinball more books like this by Jerzy N Kosinski Goddard is a reclusive rock superstar. Though everyone knows his voice, nobody knows his face. A beautiful young woman is obsessed with finding Goddard and begins to stalk him. Written for George Harrison, this novel explores issues of fame, sexuality, alienation, and violence. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Uncle from Rome more books like this by Joseph Caldwell Having fallen short of opera stardom in the U.S. and having recently lost his ex-lover to AIDS, Michael Ruane ventures to Naples in an attempt to renew himself personally and professionally. "A dazzling tour de force, deftly melding the exaggerated passions of grand opera with the techniques of contemporary fiction".--Los Angeles Times. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $89.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Constant Nymph more books like this by Margaret Kennedy Teresa is the daughter of a brilliant bohemian composer, Albert Sanger, who with his 'circus' of precocious children, slovenly mistress and assorted hangers-on, lives in a rambling chalet high in the Austrian Alps. 'Unbalanced, untaught and fatally warm-hearted', at fourteen Tessa has already fallen in love with Lewis Dodd, a gifted composer like ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Commitments more books like this by Roddy Doyle First published in 1988, THE COMMITMENTS follows a small band of musicians from the Barrytown area of Dublin as they try to make the big time. From the author of THE SNAPPER, THE VAN and PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Seduced more books like this by Nelson George A fictionalized look at the last two decades in the history of pop music that is also a coming-of-age novel. Derek Harper is an African American R&B junkie who wants to be a successful songwriter like Curtis Mayfield. Living in a tiny Manhattan apartment, he encounters women, music, frustration, and the entire spectrum of the music industry of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	Crazy Heart more books like this by Thomas Cobb 22/7/87--3000X169.93PX$10.95(4000X145.98P)RESET TO 288PP. 216X135MM.TAPES READY FOR 'A'OR'B'PAPERBACK. AS BIG AS HIS EXPANDING BELLY. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO FALL IN LOVE WITH BAD BLAKE, WHO LIVES AT THE POOR END OF THE RAINBOW. YOU WILL NEVER FORGET HIM. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	The Musical Ascent of Herman Being: A How-To Novel more books like this by Robert Danziger see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| first editions
14	Gerontius more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson The starting point of this novel is an event in the life of Sir Edward Elgar - a cruise to the Amazon that he took in 1923. In telling the story of that journey the author explores melancholy, the waning of creative genius, post-war disillusionment and the way in which England treats its artists. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.45! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Seven League Boots more books like this by Albert Murray A young bass player from Alabama is hired to tour with a legendary jazz band from Harlem to Hollywood, retracing the routes of the Underground Railroad, the Great Migration and the Gold Rush, among others. With "Train Whistle Guitar" and "The Spyglass Tree" this book forms a trilogy about the maturation of a young black man in the first half of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Goodbye Without Leaving more books like this by Laurie Colwin Written by the author of "Family Happiness", "Another Marvellous Thing" and "Happy All the Time", this novel follows the life of Geraldine as she tries to balance her life between two conflicting worlds, her past as a drop-out graduate and singer, and her present as the wife of a lawyer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Spider Kiss more books like this by Harlan Ellison He claims he's not a fan of rock-and-roll, but somehow Harlan Ellison's seminal novel based on the career of Jerry Lee Lewis ended up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. One of the first - and still one of the best - dissections of the wildly destructive rock-and-roll lifestyle, "Spider Kiss" isn't about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit or ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Long, Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora more books like this by Michael Nesmith Reality and fantasy sweetly merge in this Southwestern tale of one man's spiritual journey, written by an original member of the Monkees. see all copies from $15.00! new only from $39.95! \| first editions
19 view cover	But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz more books like this by Geoff Dyer In a series of fictional portraits, Geoff Dyer captures the beating heart of jazz, its pathos and lyricism, urgency and self-destruction: Charlie Mingus in New York; Art Pepper in prison; Lester Young in the Alvin; Bud Powell in Paris. 'Drawing on how he hears the music of people like Mingus, Monk, Bud Powell, Art Pepper and Lester Young, Dyer ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $8.92! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Anna, Ann, Annie more books like this by Thomas Trebitsch Parker A dazzling novel that portrays one woman's trajectory through life in episodes as haunting as dreams remembered. This is a haunting story of a woman who again and again reinvents herself as she finds her way from war-time Vienna to the gleaming yet deceptive promise of America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Ivory Joe more books like this by Martyn Burke see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Exes more books like this by Pagan Kennedy Four ex-lovers/current bandmates jam together amidst today's cutting-egde music scene -- in a fresh, funky novel of love lost and fame gained, by the celebrated author of Spinsters. In a fun-loving twentysomething novel that is certain to be a hit with the Shampoo Planet audience, the "Queen of the Zines" (Wired magazine) presents a hip ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Holiday in Your Heart more books like this by LeAnn Rimes, Tom Carter Fourteen-year-old country singing sensation LeAnn Rimes weaves the tale of the pressured life of a young star with a warm and endearing Christmas story that is sure to appeal to her legions of fans as well as to buyers of "The Christmas Box". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Come and Go, Molly Snow more books like this by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall Things look good for Carrie, the only woman in a Kentucky bluegrass band. She loves life on the road--and she loves Cap, the band's guitarist. Then, without warning, Carrie's five-year-old daughter dies in a senseless accident, and Carrie finds herself back on a drought-stricken farm struggling with her guilt and grief, the cost of her obsession ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25	Shock Rock: Shock Rock more books like this by Jeff Gelb (Editor), Claire Zion (Editor), Alice Cooper (Foreword by) Stephen King, David J. Schow, Thomas Tessier, F. Paul Wilson, Richard Christian Matheson, Nancy A. Collins, Graham Masterton, Ray Garton, Rex Miller, and ten other stars of today's shock fiction present the dark side of rock and roll--where the party stops and terror begins. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions

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