Alex Ross's enthralling history of 20th-century music is, for me, one of those books." - Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian "Just occasionally someone writes a book you've waited your life to read. a great achievement." - Geoff Dyer, New York Times Book Review (cover review) "The best book on what music is about - really about - that you or I will ever own." - Alan Rich, LA Weekly "A benchmark book that should eventually become a classic history of the 20th century." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review Profile: "The Best Listener in America," Doree Shafrir, New York ObserverĪudio stories: WBUR's On Point, Amazon's The Wire, NPR's All Things Considered, WNYC's Mad About Music, the Leonard Lopate show, WFYI in Indianapolis. Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, the 2008 Guardian First Book Award, a 2010 Premio Napoli prize in foreign literature, the 2011 Grand Prix des Muses, and a Music Pen Club prize in Japan finalistfor the Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction and for the Samuel Johnson Prize one of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2007 also on best-of-the-yearlists in the Washington Post,, the LA Times, New York, Time, The Economist, Slate, Newsweek, the Times of London, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Observer, the Financial Times, and the Independent.
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