The Age of Anxiety by Pete Townshend
The debut novel by Pete Townshend, one of the world's greatest rock stars
The Age of Anxiety is a great rock novel, but that is one of the less important things about it. The narrator is a brilliant creation - cultured, witty and unreliable. The novel captures the craziness of the music business and displays Pete Townshend's sly sense of humour and sharp ear for dialogue.
First conceived as an opera, The Age of Anxiety deals with mythic and operatic themes including a maze, divine madness and long-lost children. Hallucinations and soundscapes haunt this novel, which on one level is an extended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity.
About the Author
Pete Townshend is the lead guitarist and principal songwriter of The Who - one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century, selling over 100 million records worldwide - and the composer of the rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia.
Format: Paperback | 320 pages
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.3 x 2.4 | 352g
Publication Date: 05 Nov 2019
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint: Coronet
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 1473622948
ISBN13: 9781473622944
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Some damage to the cover including a minor scuff mark and a minor crease on the edges of the front cover, and a fair amount of creasing on the bottom-left corner of the back cover (which blends in with the cover's artwork and is not overly noticeable), but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.