| International Standard Book Number |
9798217059430
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| International Standard Book Number |
9798217059447
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
782.421642092/2 B
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| Personal Name |
Nelson, Willie, 1933- author aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82099717
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| Title Statement |
The last leaf : reflections on late-life creativity--and my longest love affair / Willie Nelson, with David Ritz and Mia Tangredi.
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| Edition Statement |
[First].
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| Imprint |
New York : Penguin Press, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
1 online resource
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| Formatted Contents Note |
"Bring It On" -- The Wall -- Hag -- Moving Ahead by Going Back -- In Self-Defense -- "Where Are We?" -- God's Problem Child -- God's Problem Child-Revisited -- Kids -- Every Blooming Bud -- Sinatra -- High On Luck -- Mortality Trilogy -- The Three Family Rules -- The Blue Star on Your Right -- December Day -- Death Is Not the End -- The Gift of Grief -- Sitting Down -- Joy Is Joy Is Joy -- Catch Your Breath -- Oh My God, I'm -- There Ain't No Devil, That's Just God When He's Drunk -- The Border -- Two Tongues One Ear -- Breathe -- "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Beloved American icon Willie Nelson shares his well-earned wisdom about reaching an astonishing creative flourishing, and not coincidentally, an even deeper union with the love of his life, Annie. Willie Nelson is 92, and he has not been slowing down. In the past 12 years, from 80 to 92, he has recorded 17 new studio albums, written 36 new songs and 5 books, and headlined over 400 live shows. What has been going on? He is not going to get mawkish about it, but he does have some thoughts. With his trademark downhome wit, he opens up wide, and brings us in touch with the same inexhaustible, vital stream of energy he has learned how to stay tapped into. "Looking to the future as I look to the past," he writes, "I stay in the present." That captures the spirt of THE LAST LEAF: forging ahead, it also flashes back, to life-altering moments, including the facing of almost certain death during COVID and what Nelson gained from that. Woven into his recollections of his own life as an artist is the beautiful and often hilarious account of how the fiery spirit of Annie, his wife and best friend for four decades, has matched his own. Much has been written about the early spark of romance, the thrill of first falling in love. In THE LAST LEAF, we get, beautifully, the other end of the story-the abiding of that love, even its deepening, into the pure harmony of sustained partnership. In every great book, at least ideally, the last chapter is the best chapter. THE LAST LEAF shows how true that can be"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Nelson, Willie, 1933-
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Nelson, Annie, 1956-
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Country musicians United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00000582
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Musicians' spouses United States
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Ritz, David contributor http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78023408
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Tangredi, Mia contributor http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2026525054
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Nelson, Annie, 1956- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2026525061
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