{"product_id":"what-is-it-all-but-luminous-notes-from-an-underground-man","title":"What Is It All but Luminous Notes from an Underground Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Poetic musings on a life well-lived—one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isn't your typical autobiography. Garfunkel's history is told in flowing prose, bounding from present to past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story.\" —Bookreporter \"It's hard to imagine any single word that would accurately describe this book . . . an entertaining volume that's more fun to read than a conventional memoir might have been.\" —The Wall Street Journal  \"A charming book of prose and poetry printed in a digitalized version of his handwriting . . . witty, candid, and wildly imaginative . . . A highly intelligent man trying to make sense of his extraordinary life.\" —Associated Press From the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon \u0026amp; Garfunkel, a memoir (of sorts)—moving, lyrical impressions, interspersed throughout a narrative, punctuated by poetry, musings, lists of resonant books loved and admired, revealing a life and the making of a musician, that show us, as well, the evolution of a man, a portrait of a life-long friendship and of a collaboration that became the most successful singing duo in the roiling age that embraced, and was defined by, their pathfinding folk-rock music. In What Is It All but Luminous, Art Garfunkel writes about growing up in the 1940s and ‘50s (son of a traveling salesman, listening as his father played Enrico Caruso records), a middle-class Jewish boy, living in a redbrick semi-attached house on Jewel Avenue in Kew Gardens, Queens.  He writes of meeting Paul Simon, the kid who made Art laugh (they met at their graduation play, Alice in Wonderland; Paul was the White Rabbit; Art, the Cheshire Cat). Of their being twelve at the birth of rock’n’roll (“it was rhythm and blues. It was black. I was captured and so was Paul”), of a demo of their song, Hey Schoolgirl for seven dollars and the actual record (with Paul’s father on bass) going to #40 on the charts. He writes about their becoming Simon \u0026amp; Garfunkel, ruling the pop charts from the age of sixteen, about not being a natural performer but more a thinker, an underground man. He writes of the hit songs; touring; about being an actor working with directors Mike Nichols (“the greatest of them all”), about choosing music over a PhD in mathematics. And he writes about his long-unfolding split with Paul, and how and why it evolved, and after; learning to perform on his own . . . and about being a husband, a father and much more.\u003cbr\u003e\nDimensions: 128 x 203 x 20\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor: Art Garfunkel\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN: 9780525564393\u003cbr\u003e\nFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 256\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bookhero.ae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46496575422617,"sku":"16RC-1-9780525564393","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/5696\/6297\/files\/69b99fa9b3bf1_What_Is_It_All_but_Luminous_Notes_from_an_Underground_Man.jpg?v=1773922339","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.ae\/products\/what-is-it-all-but-luminous-notes-from-an-underground-man","provider":"Dubai - Buy Used\/Second-Hand Books - BookHero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}