2020 Top 10s - Top Books of 2020 That Struck a Literary or Musical Chord: A writer's fictional joyride, a rock & roll memoir, and jazz fairy tales are books that sang this year - Arts
BELOVED, John Steinbeck's heartbreaking THE GRAPES OF WRATH, and George Orwell's frighteningly relevant 1984. Pre-lockdown, I wrestled with Argentine writer Rodrigo Fresán's THE DREAMED PART (Open Letter Press, translated by Will Vanderhyden), the second in a trilogy. Like its predecessor, The Invented Part, this massive, challenging, nonlinear tome about an unnamed writer takes you on a freewheeling, literary joyride. Probably not surprisingly, much of my year's reading concerned music. An utter delight was Austin native Kathy Valentine's heartfelt ALL I EVER WANTED: A ROCK 'N' ROLL ME...
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