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Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco

by Jason Webster
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Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco
Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco

Intense flamenco journey of passion, love, danger.

If you're feeling stuck in a routine, "Duende" might just be the escape you need. Jason Webster takes you on a riveting journey through Spain, rich with the raw passion and jeopardy of flamenco. It's more than a travel memoir; it's a story of self-discovery, love, and the pursuit of ecstasy that could spark a fire in your own life.

  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco

by Jason Webster
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ISBN: 9780552999977
Author: Jason Webster
Publisher: Black Swan
Date of Publication: 2004-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Music, History, Travel, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Biography Memoir, Memoir, History, Music, Travelogue, Biography
Goodreads rating: 3.8
(rated by 837 readers)

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Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some years dumped him unceremoniously, he found himself at a crossroads. Abandoning the world of libraries and the future he had always imagined for himself, he headed off instead for Spain in search of duende, the intense emotional state - part ecstasy, part desperation - so intrinsic to flamenco. Duende is an account of his years spent in Spain feeding his obsessive interest in the subjects himself to the tyranny of his guitar teacher, practising for hours on end until his fingers bleed; he becomes involved in a passionate affair with Lola, a flamenco dancer (and older woman) married to the gun-toting Vicente, only to flee Alicante in fear of his life; in Madrid, he falls in with Gypsies and meets the imperious Jesús. Joining their dislocated, cocaine-fuelled world, stealing cars by night and sleeping away the days in tawdry rooms, he finds himself spiralling self-destructively downwards. It is only when he arrives in Granada bruised and battered, after two years total immersion in the flamenco lifestyle that he is able to put his obsession into context. In the tradition of Laurie Lee's classic As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Duende charts a young
 

Intense flamenco journey of passion, love, danger.

If you're feeling stuck in a routine, "Duende" might just be the escape you need. Jason Webster takes you on a riveting journey through Spain, rich with the raw passion and jeopardy of flamenco. It's more than a travel memoir; it's a story of self-discovery, love, and the pursuit of ecstasy that could spark a fire in your own life.

  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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