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Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Picador USA
Publication date November 24, 2009
Pages 340
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780312428617
ISBN-10 0312428618
Dimensions 1 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight 0.72 lbs.
Original list price $23.00
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Summaries and Reviews
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Bay Area Book of the Year

A book unlike anything ever written by a composer--part memoir, part description and explication of the creative process--Hallelujah Junction is an absorbing journey across the musical landscape of America and through the life and times of John Adams, one of today's most admired and performed composers.



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Hardcover
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from Farrar Straus & Giroux (September 30, 2008)
9780374281151 | details & prices | 340 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $26.00
About: John Adams is one of the most respected and loved of contemporary composers, and "he has won his eminence fair and square: he has aimed high, he has addressed life as it is lived now, and he has found a language that makes sense to a wide audience" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker).
Paperback
Book cover for 9780312428617
 
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from Picador USA (November 24, 2009)
9780312428617 | details & prices | 340 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.72 lbs | List price $23.00
About: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Bay Area Book of the Year A book unlike anything ever written by a composer--part memoir, part description and explication of the creative process--Hallelujah Junction is an absorbing journey across the musical landscape of America and through the life and times of John Adams, one of today's most admired and performed composers.

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