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Bowie's Books: The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life | John O'Connell
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'What is your idea of perfect happiness?' 'Reading.''What is the quality you most like in a man?''The ability to return books.'Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Madame Bovary to A Clockwork Orange, the Iliad to the Beano, these were the publications that had fuelled his creativity and shaped who he was. In Bowie's Books, John O'Connell explores this list in the form of one hundred short essays, each offering a perspective on the man, performer and creator that is Bowie, his work as an artist and the era that he lived in.Bowie's Books is much more than a list of books you should read in your lifetime: it is a unique insight into one of the greatest minds of our times, and an indispensable part of the legacy that Bowie left behind.
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Thank you Helen 😁 I have actually hid this from hubby as I‘ve just brought him this book for Christmas! Hoping he doesn‘t buy it before then 🤞🏻
PS. Can‘t believe the squirrel!

squirrelbrain You‘ll have to keep him away from bookshops until then! 4y
TrishB @squirrelbrain last year he brought 2 of the books I‘d brought him for Christmas! 4y
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