The Cloud of Knowing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781969010057)

Vendor: Benjamin Taylor
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Cloud of Knowing

$27.00

The Cloud of Knowing

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Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning memoirist and biographer Benjamin Taylor turns his eye toward the biographer's art and the nature of knowing in this riveting "biomystery."


Francie Bogenschine is an independent, willful ninety-year-old Greenwich Village widow who embodies the great artistic heart of downtown New York. Her husband, the impassioned composer and eccentric Rafael Bogenschine, leapt to his death in 1967 at the height of his fame. Francie has fended off would-be biographers for decades. She finally decides to cooperate with one, a leading music historian named Daniel Sidorsky. Daily, Sidorsky climbs the stairs of Francie's house in Patchin Place to sift through the archives, then consults with Francie about his findings. Francie faithfully records the goings-on in her notebook. Will the biographer's probe uncover the mysteries surrounding Bogenschine's work, his womanizing, and his desire to leave this earthly plane?





Author: Benjamin Taylor
ISBN-10: 1969010053
ISBN-13: 9781969010057
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2027
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
By Benjamin Taylor
By Benjamin Taylor
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Benjamin Taylor is the author of Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather (Viking, 2023) and Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth (Penguin Books, 2020). He received a 2021 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered, received the 2017 Los Angeles Times-Christopher Isherwood Prize and was named a New York Times Editors' Choice. His Proust: The Search was named a Best Book of 2015 by Thomas Mallon in The New York Times Book Review and Robert McCrum in The Observer. Taylor is a past fellow and current trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and serves as president of the Edward F. Albee Foundation. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

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