Headed for the Blues: A Memoir

by Josef Škvorecký and Josef Skovrecky

Book Overview

Is there a dissident or writer who lived under Communist rule in Czechoslovakia who wasn't a music aficionado? The blues are in the title of novelist Skvorecky's memoir, but it's jazz that gives the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880014628
• ISBN13: 9780880014625
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

A strange and exquisite trip

Svorecky's book Headed for the Blues is an excellent, mainly stream-of-conciousness narrative dealing with his experiences as a young boy and man in his homeland. Woven in with this story of a Communist land is a philosophy on life and writing. An excellent book. One of my favorites. And believe me this review does NOT do it justice. I just figured a book as good as this ought to at least have one review here.