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A Fine Romance

“Digressive, nostalgic and deeply moving, Lehman achieves a fine, lasting tribute to the American songbook.”
--Publishers Weekly

“David Lehman's A Fine Romance wittily explores the enormous contribution of Jewish writers and composers to the American musical scene. Lehman finds Jewish influence, or what he calls ‘a plaintive undertow,’ even in such unlikely upbeat anthems as Gershwin's ‘Love Walked In.’ His love-struck history is itself a major entertainment.”
-- John Ashbery, author of Three Poems

"David Lehman's A Fine Romance is a spirited account and reminiscence of a time when Jewish plaintiveness and wit combined with Negro blues to give our American culture its way of singing. Everyone who hums the great old tunes will delight in this book and its wondrous lore.”
--Richard Wilbur, author of Things of This World

“With brio and encyclopedic knowledge, David Lehman has penned a lovely valentine to the American songbook. Along the way, hard questions are asked, contradictions confronted and shrewd insights offered. The result is pure delight.”
--Phillip Lopate, author of Two Marriages

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Title of ebook: A Fine Romance
ISBN: 9780805242713
parent-ISBN: 9780805242508
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 10-2009
Released online for download: 10-06-2009
Author of eBook: Lehman, David

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