{"product_id":"2026100008062-secondhand-the-muses-are-heard-an-account-of-the-porgy-and-bess-visit-to-leningrad","title":"The Muses Are Heard: An Account Of The Porgy And Bess Visit To Leningrad","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Fair\/poor. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: intact. Significant white scuffing and paint loss across the red cloth boards, particularly on the corners, spine edges, and front cover. Worn\/faded spine with heavy rubbing. Usual shelf-wear throughout. Internally sound.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1956, the American company behind George Gershwin's beloved opera Porgy and Bess embarked on an audacious cultural mission behind the Iron Curtain — the first American theatrical troupe to perform in the Soviet Union. Truman Capote chronicles this extraordinary journey to Leningrad with the sharp eye of a journalist and the sensibility of a novelist, capturing the collision of two worlds through a cast of characters that ranges from wide-eyed performers to stone-faced Soviet officials, all navigating the treacherous terrain of Cold War diplomacy.\n\nCapote's signature wit and razor-sharp observations transform what could have been a straightforward travelogue into a penetrating study of culture, ideology, and the strange alchemy of art as political currency. Written with the same incisive prose that would later define In Cold Blood, The Muses Are Heard stands as an early masterwork of narrative non-fiction, illustrating Capote's genius for finding the absurd and the poignant in equal measure. Is a curtain call ever just a curtain call when the audience is the Soviet state?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130694607067,"sku":"2026100008062-SECONDHAND","price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/cbc70b39-a05e-4dbf-9ed7-8cbfa7539304.png?v=1786588678","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008062-secondhand-the-muses-are-heard-an-account-of-the-porgy-and-bess-visit-to-leningrad","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}