The Rest Is Noise
Alex Ross
Non-Fiction / History
The Rest Is Noise
by Alex Ross
—· 624 p· 2007
National Book Critics Circle Award20th Century Classicreflectivephilosophical
Overview
About
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year
Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007
Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007
A Washington Post Book WorldBest Book of 2007
In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin…
Pages
624
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Historical Synthesis10
Musical Analysis10
Prose9
Narration9
Worldbuilding7
Emotional depth7
Pacing7
Plot twists3
My journey
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