The Bass Saxophone by Josef Škvorecký

The Bass Saxophone

Josef Škvorecký

fiction short stories reflective slow-paced

216 pages | first published 1967

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The two haunting, poetic novellas that comprise The Bass Saxophone brilliantly evoke the comedy and sadness of life under the Nazi and Soviet dictatorships. They are prefaced by a remarkable memoir of Skvorecky's jazz-obsessed youth. Jazz is a sym...
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