Late Arcade (eBook)

Nathaniel Mackey (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
224 Seiten
New Directions (Verlag)
978-0-8112-2661-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Nathaniel Mackey's Late Arcade opens in Los Angeles. A musician known only as N. writes the first of a series of letters to the enigmatic Angel of Dust. N.'s jazz sextet, Molimo m'Atet, has just rehearsed a new tune: the horn players read from The Egyptian Book of the Dead with lips clothespinned shut, while the rest of the band struts and saunters in a cosmic hymn to the sun god Ra. N. ends this breathless session by sending the Angel of Dust a cassette tape of their rehearsal.Over the next nine months, N.'s epistolary narration follows the musical goings-on of the ensemble. N. suffers from what he calls "e;cowrie shell at- tacks"e;-oil spills, N.'s memory of his mother's melancholy musical Sundays- which all becomes the source of fresh artistic invention.Here is the newest installment of the National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Mackey's From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, the great American jazz novel of "e;exquisite rhythmic lyricism"e; (Bookforum).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-8112-2661-1 / 0811226611
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2661-5 / 9780811226615