Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim by D.T. Max (English) Hardcover

Description: Finale by D.T. Max Conducted during the last years of the iconic composers life, a deeply personal collection of interviews highlights the legends work and his opinions and thoughts on music, movies, family, New York, aging, and the creative process. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Brazenly entertaining. . . . It summons to the page a Broadway voice like no other."--Los Angeles Times"[An] erudite and affably self-conscious memoir of the creative process."--VultureAn intimate portrait of a genius: the late Stephen Sondheim in a series of illuminating and deeply personal interviews from the last years of his life--conversations that show the composer-lyricist as he has likely never been seen before.In 2017, New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max began working on a major profile of Stephen Sondheim that would be timed to the eventual premiere of a new musical Sondheim was writing. Sadly, that process - and the years of conversation - was cut short by Sondheims own hesitations, then the global pandemic, and finally by the great artists death in November 2021.Now, Max has taken the raw version of these conversations and knit them together into an unforgettable work of literature and celebration. Finale reveals Sondheim--a star who disliked the spotlight--at his most relaxed, thoughtful, sardonic, and engaging, as he talks about work, music, movies, family, New York City, aging, the creative process, and much more.Max brings you into the room and gives you a front row seat for their unusual and intimate three-year-long "pas de deux." The two bond, spar, separate, and reunite, as Max elicits from Sondheim a candor and vulnerability he seldom displayed in public. This is a unique portrait of an artist in his twilight, offering remarkable insight into the mind and heart of a genius whose work changed American musical theater and popular culture forever. Author Biography D.T. Max is a staff writer at the New Yorker. He is the author of The Family That Couldnt Sleep: A Medical Mystery, and the bestselling Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace. He lives outside of New York City. Review "Max paints a nuanced and sympathetic portrait of a notoriously private figure, enhanced with his own astute and earnest perspective . . . . Sondheims fans shouldnt miss this." -- Publishers Weekly"[An] erudite and affably self-conscious memoir of the creative process. . . . For every brilliant chunk of dialogue, there are multiple moments when Max invites readers into his thought process while interviewing, as well as first-person accounts of the frenzied desire he felt coaxing Sondheim into revealing what makes him tick." -- Vulture Review Quote "Max paints a nuanced and sympathetic portrait of a notoriously private figure, enhanced with his own astute and earnest perspective . . . . Sondheims fans shouldnt miss this." -- Publishers Weekly "[An] erudite and affably self-conscious memoir of the creative process. . . . For every brilliant chunk of dialogue, there are multiple moments when Max invites readers into his thought process while interviewing, as well as first-person accounts of the frenzied desire he felt coaxing Sondheim into revealing what makes him tick." -- Vulture Details ISBN0063279819 Author D.T. Max Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 0063279819 ISBN-13 9780063279810 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2022-11-22 Pages 240 Subtitle Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim DEWEY 782.14092 Audience General UK Release Date 2022-11-22 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint Collins Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2022-11-22 Imprint US Harper Publisher US HarperCollins We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139136044;

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