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14 produkter
Magic Keys
E-bok, 2007
126 kr
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If Gabriel Garc’a M‡rquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants in England, he might have produced a novel as beautiful and devastating as Maps for Lost Lovers. Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared. Like thousands of people all over Enland, they were lovers and living together out of wedlock. …
Trading Twelves
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
Av Albert Murray, Ralph Ellison m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
191 kr
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This absorbing collection of letters spans a decade in the lifelong friendship of two remarkable writers who engaged the subjects of literature, race, and identity with deep clarity and passion. The correspondence begins in 1950 when Ellison is living in New York City, hard at work on his enduring …
South to a Very Old Place
E-bok, 2012
158 kr
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The highly acclaimed novelist and biographer Albert Murray tells his classic memoir of growing up in Alabama during the 1920s and 1930s in South to a Very Old Place . Intermingling remembrances of youth with engaging conversation, African-American folklore, and astute cultural criticism, it is at …
Blue Devils of Nada
A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement
E-bok, 2012
79 kr
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Murray gives readers the redefined essence of his lifetime meditation on the blues as this musical style informs American life. Here are incisive essays on writing, music, and art that go beyond the social-science fiction of Negrohood to describe in no uncertain terms what it means to be American.
Spyglass Tree
E-bok, 2012
121 kr
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By “our premier writer about jazz and the blues...and a fictional tale spinner in the grand Southern tradition” ( Washington Post Book World ), The Spyglass Tree is a deeply affecting novel of elegant, lyrical reminiscence and profound sophistication about a young black man’s advent into the world …
Seven League Boots
E-bok, 2012
87 kr
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The break-out novel by an unrecognized master--"a fictional tale spinner in the grand Southern tradition" (Washington Post Book World). Told from the point of view of a young Alabama college graduate in the 1920s, this brilliant novel recounts the exploits of a legendary jazz composer and his band …
Hero And the Blues
E-bok, 2012
173 kr
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In this visionary book, Murray takes an audacious new look at black music and, in the process, succeeds in changing the way one reads literature. Murray''s subject is the previously unacknowledged kinship between fiction and the blues. Both, he argues, are virtuoso performances that impart …
Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
Av Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
283 kr
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The Spyglass Tree
Häftad, 1992
184 kr
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By “our premier writer about jazz and the blues . . . and a fictional tale spinner in the grand Southern tradition” ( Washington Post Book World ), The Spyglass Tree is a deeply affecting novel of elegant, lyrical reminiscence and profound sophistication about a young black man’s advent into the …
The Blue Devils of NADA: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement
Häftad, 1997
296 kr
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Murray Talks Music
Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Inbunden, 2016
311 kr
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The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916–2013), who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and iconoclastic social critic, and a formidable interpreter of jazz and blues. Not only did his prizewinning study Stomping the Blues (1976) influence …
