Gershwin

by Edward Jablonski

Overview

This still unrivaled biography portrays with precision and insight the tragically brief life—from the Brooklyn tenements to Broadway, Hollywood, and Carnegie Hall—of George Gershwin (1898–1937), a man whose music (Lady Be Good, Of Thee I Sing, Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F, An American in Paris, Porgy and Bess) and career—like F. Scott Fitzgerald's—embodied the glamorous success and lost possibilities of the Jazz Age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306808470
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	08/22/1998
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edward Jablonski is the author of The Gershwin Years: George and Ira (with Lawrence D. Stewart—available from Da Capo/ Perseus Books Group), Arlen: Happy with the Blues, Alan Jay Lerner, and many others. He lives in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

The definitive Gershwin biography. -- New York Times Book Review

Francis Davis