Getting There
Published on 14. August 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-0-615-15935-5 (ISBN)
Description
Growing up in Berkeley, 1935-1945, and on a hardscrabble farm in Sonoma county, 1945-1952; college in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Berkeley; early marriage and children; beginning to learn about Modernism, writing, and the composition of music. The first thirty years, 1935-1964. 212 pages; b&w photos.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Healdsburg
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
352 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-615-15935-5 (9780615159355)
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Person
The writer and composer Charles Shere was music director at KPFA-fm, announcer and producer at KQED-tv, and art and music critic at the Oakland Tribune. He has been associated with the restaurant Chez Panisse since its founding, and has published books on the composer Robert Erickson, on Gertrude Stein and Marcel Duchamp, and a number of books of travel essays. A fifth-generation Californian, he considers himself a modernist and a regionalist, with a strong interest in Place.