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God Only Knows
The Beach Boys are one of rock's most enduring and enigmatic groups, and while the band has been the subject of numerous biographies and other in-depth studies, there has been no focused evaluation of the religious and spiritual themes in their work. Spiritual and theological themes are present in much of their work, and when this realization is coupled with Brian Wilson's mission \"to spread the gospel of love through records,\" and his sense of music as spiritual--of thinking \"pop music is going to be spiritual... that's the direction I want to go\"--this is a striking way to explore the band's music. In God Only Knows, the contributors attempt to come to grips with just a small amount of this band's massive output--by circling around its theological virtues. Each section of the book is a loose investigation of the guiding topics of faith, hope, and love. Each essay is a free exploration of theological and spiritual themes from the contributor's own perspectives.
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I am Brian Wilson : a memoir
\"The memoirs of the legendary co-founder of the Beach Boys offer insights into his difficult relationship with his father, the women in his life, his parenting experiences, and the events that inspired his music,\"--NoveList.
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Buenos Aires
The fair is devoted to all types of books, but mainly literature for children, young people and adults and is considered one of the more important cultural and editorial events in Latin America. Thanks to a special day when the books are offered for sale with a 50% discount, public librarians from all over the country attend to buy their books.
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Science Fiction
THE GAP INTO CONFLICT: The Real Story (Bantam Spectra, $18.95) is the first volume of a new science fiction series by Stephen R. Donaldson, whose eight previous novels, beginning with \"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,\" have sold more copies than I care to contemplate. According to a publicity blurb, Mr. Donaldson is known for the \"intensity\" and \"emotional power\" of his prose. In this new novel, he packages old-fashioned space opera in the guise of a fairy tale -- a narrative strategy that owes something to the work of Paul Linebarger, who wrote under the name Cordwainer Smith. But Linebarger was one of science fiction's most accomplished stylists, with some worthwhile thoughts to share about freedom and dependence. Mr. Donaldson, who has nothing on his mind beyond a nasty bit of woman-bashing, must make do with such sentences as \"Her wail became a screech, as wild as the cry of a mad thing\" and \"She began to look sharper, more dangerous; her nipples were poised on her breasts as if they could do damage.\" Ms. [Vonda N. McIntyre] is the author of the Nebula Award-winning \"Dreamsnake\" (1978). In that book she took time to develop her central character, a young woman whose healing \"technology\" grew out of a symbiotic relationship with other living creatures and who was herself a complex exemplar of the wider planetary culture. By contrast, the people in \"Transition,\" for all their social posturing and protestations of love and hate, seem to have no existence beyond the exigencies of plot. What happens inside them is described in language that ranges from the telegraphic (\"She snarled with despair\") to the improbably analytic (\"Victoria, I don't know how to answer the question, 'Is Zev your lover?' It doesn't mean anything in the sea, and Zev hasn't been with
Book Review
New & noteworthy paperbacks
Scott Veale reviews nine paperback books, including \"The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos\" by Anne Carson, \"The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics\" by Julian Barbour and \"Dirty Havana Trilogy: A Novel in Stories\" by Peter Juan Gutierrez.
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Good vibrations : Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in critical perspective
Good Vibrations\" brings together scholars with a variety of expertise,from music to cultural studies to literature, to assess the full extent of the contributions to popular culture and popular music of one themost successful and influential pop bands of the 20th century. Thebook covers the full fifty-year history of the Beach Boys' music, from essays on some of the group's best-known music-such as their hitsingle \"Good Vibrations\"-to their mythical unfinished masterpiece, Smile. Throughout, the book places special focus on the individual whose creative vision brought the whole enterprise to life, Brian Wilson,advancing our understanding of his gifts as a songwriter, arranger, and producer. The book joins a growing body of literature on the popular music of the1960s, in general, and on Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in particular. But Good Vibrations extends the investigation further and deeper than it has gone before, not only offering new understanding and insights into individual songs and albums, but also providing close examination of compositional techniques and reflections on the group's place in American popular culture.
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