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The definitive text of Perfect
Lives is accompanied here by Ashley's plot synopsis
and his own candid account of the making of the opera.
This is the first publication of the complete narrative
of this major work of twentieth century arts and letters.
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| "What about the Bible? And
the Koran? It doesn't matter: We have Perfect Lives. |
—John Cage
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| Perfect Lives is an
endless and seamless dreamscape of the musicality of the
spoken word. Last winter after performing Swimming
to Cambodia I would lie on the floor and listen to
Perfect Lives over and over. It floats in my head
like a memorable, ever-changing dream." |
—Spalding Grey
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| Edited by Melody Sumner Carnahan.
8 1/2 x 7 inches, 224 pages, clothbound, smythe-sewn.
Published by Burning Books with Archer Fields Press, 1991.
(ISBN 0-9627767-7-7) |
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