The Vulture
The legendary poet and musician's debut novel is an impressively crafted urban noir . . . like an early forerunner of The Wire (The Independent). Known as the godfather of rap and an innovator of spoken-word soul music with songs like The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Gil Scott-Heron wrote his first novel, The Vulture, while he was still a student at Lincoln University. First published to critical acclaim in 1970, it offers a fascinating portrait of late 60s New York with the same heart, wit, and urgent social commentary expressed in his music (Mojo). The Vulture is a hip and fast-moving thriller, set in lower Manhattan. It relates the…
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Weitere Autoren: Ball, Toby
- ISBN: 978-0-8021-9392-6
- EAN: 9780802193926
- Produktnummer: 21832708
- Verlag: Grove Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'737 KB
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In a musical career spanning five decades, from Small Talk at 125th and Lenox to I'm New Here, Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) released twenty albums and many seminal singles including The Revolution Will Not be Televised, Home is Where the Hatred Is, Winter in America, B Movie Johannesburg and Lady Day and John Coltrane. He was also the author of three previous books: two novels, The Vulture (1970) and The Nigger Factory (1972), and Now and Then: The Poems of Gil Scott-Heron.
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