But Beautiful
1991 · 240 pages
Dyer imagines his way into the nights of jazz musicians, Lester Young after the army broke him and Thelonious Monk alone at a piano, inventing scenes to reach what no biography can.
★ 6.2
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Appointment in Samarra
1934 · 240 pages
At a country club on Christmas Eve, a Pennsylvania Cadillac dealer throws a drink in the wrong man's face. O'Hara tracks the next three days with pitiless attention to who outranks whom.
★ 6.2