{"product_id":"art-garfunkel-what-is-it-all-but-luminous-notes-from-an-underground-man","title":"Art Garfunkel: What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eArt Garfunkel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eHardcover | \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e13.46 x 2.79 x 21.08 cm | 256 pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRandom House | 2017 | 9780385352475\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat Is It All but Luminous\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe writes of meeting Paul Simon, the kid who made Art laugh (they met at their graduation play, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAlice in Wonderland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; Paul was the White Rabbit; Art, the Cheshire Cat). Of their being twelve at the birth of rock 'n' roll (\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit was rhythm and blues. It was black. I was captured and so was Paul\"), of a demo of their song, \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHey, Schoolgirl\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor seven dollars and the actual record (with Paul's father on bass) going to #40 on the charts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThis book has been remainder marked by the publisher - a marker pen dot on one outer edge - see images.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47294473339138,"sku":"BK-RAN-AGWABL-001-OP","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_2845_d31cace1-a41d-4b8b-bf98-9c54cab550d9.jpg?v=1777991194","url":"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk\/products\/art-garfunkel-what-is-it-all-but-luminous-notes-from-an-underground-man","provider":"Books About Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}