The bass saxophone

Josef Škvorecký

Original title: Bassaxofon

earliest edition we have, 1977 Anson-Cartwright Editions, 1977 186 pages

Two jazz-haunted novellas and a memoir of the Czechoslovakian novelist's own youthful obsession with jazz convey the irresistable lure of the music that celebrates freedom and spontaneity but was officially censured as being degenerate.

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The bass saxophone edition · 1994 · Ecco Press · 208 pages
The bass saxophone edition · 1979 · Knopf · 208 pages
The bass saxophone edition · 1978 · Chatto & Windus · 185 pages
The bass saxophone edition · 1977 · Anson-Cartwright Editions · 186 pages

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