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The age of anxiety : a novel
- Title
- The age of anxiety : a novel / Pete Townshend.
- Author
- Townshend, Pete
- Publication
- New York : Hachette Books, 2019.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-619 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 265 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends. A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he has become a hermit and a painter of apocalyptic visions. An art dealer has drug-induced visions of demonic faces swirling in a bedstead and soon his wife disappears, nowhere to be found. A beautiful Irish girl, who has stabbed her father to death is determined to seduce her best friend's husband. A young composer begins to experience aural hallucinations, expressions of the fear and anxiety of the people of London. He constructs a maze in his back garden. Driven by passion and musical ambition, events spiral out of control-good drugs and bad drugs, loves lost and found, families broken apart and reunited. Conceived jointly as an opera, The Age of Anxiety deals with mythic and operatic themes. Hallucinations and soundscapes haunt this novel, which on one level is an extended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-619
- ISBN
- 9780316398985
- 0316398985
- LCCN
- 2019948781
- OCLC
- 1124762984
- Author
- Townshend, Pete, author.
- Title
- The age of anxiety : a novel / Pete Townshend.
- Publisher
- New York : Hachette Books, 2019.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-619