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Signs of life : a memoir of dying and discovery

Brookes, Tim.

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Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1756 BRO

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Summary: When baggage handlers destroy Tim Brookes's guitar, he discovers that a dream guitar is built, not bought, and sets out to find someone to make him the perfect guitar. His quest takes him across the country, talking to historians, curators, and guitar makers, and he explores the guitar's mystique: freedom, the open road, protest and rebellion, the blues, youth, lost love, and sexuality. In an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005