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This biography portrays with precision and insight the tragically brief life - from the Brooklyn tenements to Broadway, Hollywood, and Carnegie Hall - of George Gershwin (1898-1937), a man whose music and career - like F. Scott Fitzgerald's - embodied the glamorous success and lost possibility of the Jazz Age.

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"Both the definitive biography of the Gershwin brothers and a lavishly illustrated chronicle of the American era their music and lyrics embodied, The Gershwin Years celebrates the musical achievements"

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Gershwin's music has been appropriated by popular and "serious" music-lovers alike. Though best known for his "hit" musicals he also wrote for the concert hall and opera house. This collection of writings includes reminiscences about Gershwin from Osbert Sitwell, Oscar Levant and Richard Rodgers.