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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 226
Utgivningsdatum: 2001-10-01
Förlag: Simon & Schuster
Illustrationer: black & white illustrations
Dimensioner: 207 x 134 x 12 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
Komponenter: Paperback
ISBN: 9780684869704

Fisher King, the

Name: Fisher King, the
Price: 257.00 SEK
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Author: Marshall
ISBN: 9780684869704

A Novel

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Häftad, Engelska, 2001-10-01

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In 1949, Sonny-Rett Payne, a jazz pianist, fled New York for Paris to escape both his family's disapproval of his music and the racism that shadowed his career. Now, decades later, his eight-year-old grandson is brought to Payne's old Brooklyn neighborhood to attend a memorial concert in his honor. The child's visit reveals the persistent family and community rivalries that drove his grandfather into exile. The Fisher King -- a moving story of jazz, love, family conflict, and the artists' struggles in society -- offers hope in the healing and redemptive power of one memorable boy.

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Valerie Boyd Atlanta Journal-Constitution Lean and beautifully written, this novel -- like the jazz at its core -- swings and soars and deeply satisfies. Edwidge Danticat The Washington Post The Fisher King masterfully carries us back and forth between the streets of Paris and the brownstones of Brooklyn, among French, American, Caribbean, and African-American cultures, and between a present that can't be avoided and a past that won't be dismissed....This is one of those novels that you will be reading again and again for many years.

Paule Marshall holds a distinguished chair in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University. She has won many awards, including the John Dos Passos Award for Literature, an American Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She lives in New York City and Richmond, Virginia.