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Edition · 2025-09-18 · Hardcover

Living in the Present with John Prine

TPTom Piazza
2025
year of publication
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pages
English (United States)
language
Hardcover
cover
Publisher
Omnibus - Books
ISBN-13
978-19-1584-123-0
EAN
9781915841230
Publication date
2025-09-18
Book
Living in the Present with John Prine · 1 edition
The publisher on this edition

In the spring of 2018, Tom Piazza climbed into a cherry-red Cadillac Coupe-Deville with the great singer-songwriter John Prine. The two embarked on a road trip through Florida full of jokes and tall tales, afternoons digging around record stores and long nights playing guitar. Having forged a deep friendship, they decide to embark on a new shared project - to write Prine's memoir together. When Prine died suddenly of COVID in April 2020, that unfinished memoir evolved into an intimate narrative of the artist's final years. The result is a warm and intimate story, richly detailed with hilarious stories of his youth and family in Chicago and Kentucky, his breakthrough into the national spotlight. Piazza offers fans an unforgettable portrait of the beloved musician in the twilight of his life; as a boyish cut-up, an epic raconteur, a great American poet and most importantly, the good friend his fans have always imagined.