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The Magic Keys
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 13.00If 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. To Chanda?s family, however, the disgrace was unforgivable.... more...
South to a Very Old Place
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00The Blue Devils of Nada
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 19.00Murray 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. more...
The Seven League Boots
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 17.00The 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 on a tour that becomes a heroic journey "equivalent... more...
Trading Twelves
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00This 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 masterpiece, Invisible Man , and Murray is a professor... more...
Rifftide
University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 47.00"The things that I have, I'll give to you. This is my legacy with you, Albert. This is my last hoo-rah. "So begins the autobiography of Jonathan David Samuel Jones--or as the world better knows him, Papa Jo Jones. Playing with Count Basie and his orchestra when they exploded out of Kansas City in 1936 and took the world by storm, Jones... more...
Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 25.00This collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and letters and as an American cultural... more...
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