"Music never stopped a war or put an end to greed or the hunger for power. But it was never supposed to. It has no reason, just as life has no reason. It just is. And what it is is the best that we can hope to be."Music is the talent – and the curse – that spans three generations to link Alex Rivera with the secrets of his family’s past. Plucked from obsurity and thrown together with four other musical "prodigies", Alex rides the power of his music to fame and fortune as the lead-guitarist for Asturias, the latest creation of the music industry machine. But will the forces of commercialism and the stresses of fame destroy them, just as a bloody civil war tore apart another group of young idealists six decades earlier? How could anything go wrong? Everything’s on track. You’re on top of the world. Which is great. As long as you don’t look down …
Brian Caswell
Asturias [PDF ebook]
Asturias [PDF ebook]
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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● ISBN 9780702257933 ● 出版者 University of Queensland Pr ● 发布时间 2015 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 5667377 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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