Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould - Tapa blanda

"There will be other books on Gould,... but I doubt if there will be one that is more thorough and entertaining than this." Times Literary Supplement "On Gould the man, Bazzana is scrupulously fair and open-minded." Sunday Telegraph "In short, anyone with the slightest interest in Glenn Gould will find Bazzana's biography thoroughly informative, full of insight and quite indispensable." BBC Music Magazine "Bazzana's excellent Wondrous Strange... cover[s] the salient facts of Gould's life while providing the fullest and most convincing portrait of the man and artist we have thus far had. Exceedingly well researched." Prospect "Well researched, well-written, intelligent and fair, Kevin Bazzana's Wondrous Strange will be seen as the definitive mainstream biography of Glenn Gould" Nicholas Spice, Publisher, London Review of Books"

In this absorbing and entertaining biography, Kevin Bazzana distils twenty years' research on Glenn Gould's celebrated life as a pianist, writer, broadcaster, and composer. Looking beyond the legend of the self-taught and emotionally damaged recluse who burst onto the international musical scene in the mid-1950s but was dead at fifty, he presents a balanced portrait of a complex figure who, while uniquely gifted and genuinely eccentric, was also the product of his upbringing and surroundings.