{"product_id":"what-is-it-all-but-luminous-notes-from-an-underground-man","title":"What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man","description":"\"Poetic musings on a life well-lived—one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isn't your typical autobiography. Garfunkel's history is told in flowing prose, bounding from present to past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story.\"\n—Bookreporter\n\n\"It's hard to imagine any single word that would accurately describe this book . . . an entertaining volume that's more fun to read than a conventional memoir might have been.\"\n—The Wall Street Journal\n\n\"A charming book of prose and poetry printed in a digitalized version of his handwriting . . . witty, candid, and wildly imaginative . . . A highly intelligent man trying to make sense of his extraordinary life.\"\n—Associated Press\n\nFrom the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon \u0026amp; Garfunkel, a memoir (of sorts)—moving, lyrical impressions, interspersed throughout a narrative, punctuated by poetry, musings, lists of resonant books loved and admired, revealing a life and the making of a musician, that show us, as well, the evolution of a man, a portrait of a life-long friendship and of a collaboration that became the most successful singing duo in the roiling age that embraced, and was defined by, their pathfinding folk-rock music.\n\nIn What Is It All but Luminous, Art Garfunkel writes about growing up in the 1940s and ‘50s (son of a traveling salesman, listening as his father played Enrico Caruso records), a middle-class Jewish boy, living in a redbrick semi-attached house on Jewel Avenue in Kew Gardens, Queens.\n\nHe writes of meeting Paul Simon, the kid who made Art laugh (they met at their graduation play, Alice in Wonderland; Paul was the White Rabbit; Art, the Cheshire Cat). Of their being twelve at the birth of rock’n’roll (“it was rhythm and blues. It was black. I was captured and so was Paul”), of a demo of their song, Hey Schoolgirl for seven dollars and the actual record (with Paul’s father on bass) going to #40 on the charts.\n\nHe writes about their becoming Simon \u0026amp; Garfunkel, ruling the pop charts from the age of sixteen, about not being a natural performer but more a thinker, an underground man.\n\nHe writes of the hit songs; touring; about being an actor working with directors Mike Nichols (“the greatest of them all”), about choosing music over a PhD in mathematics.\n\nAnd he writes about his long-unfolding split with Paul, and how and why it evolved, and after; learning to perform on his own . . . and about being a husband, a father and much more.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0385352476\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: HBSV.0385352476.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Garfunkel, Art\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book  is in good condition and has some writing, underlining, and or highlighting inside. Cover may have some cosmetic wear.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The Happy Book Stack ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51895644127533,"sku":"HBSV.0385352476.G","price":5.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/6799\/6205\/files\/0385352476-0.jpg?v=1772916213","url":"https:\/\/www.thehappybookstack.com\/products\/what-is-it-all-but-luminous-notes-from-an-underground-man","provider":"The Happy Book Stack ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}